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Van Thu HUYNH, ACM CRC PhD Student
By ACM CRC Media Team 02 May, 2024
We’re taking this opportunity to introduce each our PhDs to you – those who are playing a significant role within our program, and in the broader industry. Here, we speak with Van Thu HUYNH, ACM CRC PhD Student.
Composites Conference 2024: solving everyday challenges with advanced composites
By ACM CRC Media Team 01 May, 2024
Catch Dr Steve Gower at the 2024 Composites Conference from 1-2 May 2024, where he’d be delighted to answer any questions you may have around the CRC’s research and projected impact, and to discuss potential opportunities for collaboration.
By ACM CRC Media Team 26 Apr, 2024
This new ACM CRC project will identify and develop advanced manufacturing techniques for increased surfboard laminating quality, adapted automated processes for core shaping, composite material deposition (glassing), and finishing.
Minister announces major expansion for revolutionary circular design ACM CRC project
By ACM CRC Media Team 23 Apr, 2024
ACM CRC launched a project with partners HERA, The University of Sydney and ANSTO, which will lead the way in digital transformation for Circular Design 4.0.
Alex Air, ACM CRC PhD Student
By ACM CRC Media Team 27 Mar, 2024
We’re taking this opportunity to introduce each our PhDs to you – those who are playing a significant role within our program, and in the broader industry. First up, is Alex Air, from one of ACM CRC’s university partners, UNSW Sydney.
Chris Jenkins, ACM CRC PhD Student
By ACM CRC Media Team 27 Mar, 2024
We’re taking this opportunity to introduce each our PhDs to you – those who are playing a significant role within our program, and in the broader industry. Here, we speak with Chris Jenkins, from one of ACM CRC’s university partners, UNSW Sydney.
ACM CRC, FUZE and The University of Western Australia
By ACM CRC Media Team 20 Mar, 2024
A new ACM CRC-funded project is seeking to overcome certain limitations of structural health monitoring, to enable safer and more reliable offshore structures.
Dr Steve Gower, CEO, officially launches the Australian Composites Manufacturing CRC
By ACM CRC Media Team 08 Feb, 2024
In late 2023, SoMAC CRC rebranded to become ACM CRC, to better reflect the depth and significance this consortium will bring to Australia’s composite manufacturing industry.
2023-Annual-Partner-Meeting-group-photo ACM-CRC
By ACM CRC Media Team 07 Feb, 2024
Late last year, ACM CRC held its second Partner Meeting, bringing together industry, research, and government representatives to reflect on and review the future of Australia’s composites manufacturing industry.
Catch Professor Ganga Prusty at ACAM 2024 from 7-9 February
By ACM CRC Media Team 02 Feb, 2024
Catch Professor Ganga Prusty, of ACM CRC, at the 11th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics (ACAM 2024) from 7-9 February in Brisbane, Australia.
By ACM CRC Media Team 02 Feb, 2024
A new R&D project between Australian Composites Manufacturing (ACM CRC), Ocius Technology and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) is set to optimise the use of wave energy for propulsion, harnessing energy for underwater flippers for unmanned surface vessels (USVs).
17 Oct, 2023
The Sovereign Manufacturing Automation for Composites CRC (SoMAC CRC) is proud to announce a collaboration with the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) and Omni Tanker to spearhead a digital transformation in composites manufacturing.
30 Aug, 2023
Quickstep Holdings Ltd (ASX: QHL) (Quickstep or the Company) is delighted to announce that it has signed an exciting engineering collaboration with the Sovereign Manufacturing Automation for Composites CRC (SoMAC CRC) and Deakin University’s Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (ISRII) to help solve one of the key issues in large scale composites production, that being the relatively high cost of production.
Hypersonix Hypersonic plane
By ACM CRC Media Team 29 Jun, 2023
Hypersonic vehicle developer Hypersonix Launch Systems and Australian Composites Manufacturing CRC (formerly SOMAC CRC) have joined forces to tackle one of the big issues facing hypersonic flight – high-temperature material integration.
Gilmour Space Technologies/Eris second stage firing
By ACM CRC Media 26 Jun, 2023
ACM CRC (formerly SOMAC CRC) has launched its first-ever research collaboration which could lead to the development of a new cost-effective solution for protecting space launch vehicles and spacecraft against extreme heat and pressure.
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