Webinar: Advanced Thermal and Fire Protection for Aerospace and Automotive Applications With LMPAEK Unidirectional Tapes by Gardner Business Media, Inc. Webinars

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About This Webinar

Low-melt polyaryletherketone (LMPAEK) unidirectional tapes provide outstanding thermal and fire protection, demonstrating their effectiveness through rigorous testing. These tapes are fire, smoke and toxicity compliant with FAR25.853 and meet OSU Heat Release Rate standards. The tapes were tested under ISO 2685/AC 20-135 Change 1, meeting the fireproof criteria. Additionally, they met UL 2596 requirements for battery thermal runaway tests. These tapes are crucial for high-temperature applications showcasing their resilience and safety in both aerospace and automotive applications.

Part of a broader range that includes films and compounds, Victrex LMPAEK materials are valued for their excellent processability and weldability. They offer versatile solutions for complex needs beyond traditional structural parts, such as: thermal runaway and lightning strike protection, heat sinking, and intricate bracketry.

Victrex LMPAEK materials facilitate automation and high-rate production while addressing performance and sustainability challenges. With reduced environmental impact, lower weight and cost-efficiency, they meet the evolving demands of the transportation industry and support innovative design solutions.

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Agenda

Introduction to LMPAEK ecosystem, highlighting unidirectional tapes
Thermal and fire protection performance: applications and benefits
Material forms and processability
Sustainability and efficiency
Conclusion and future innovations

Presenters

Peter Levesque

Engineering Manager, Victrex

Peter Levesque has been designing and engineering innovative composite solutions for 18 years. His contributions range from round-the-world racing yacht design and underwater exploration to space and commercial aviation applications. Peter has helped found two composite parts manufacturing businesses and currently leads a team of application design engineers in finding novel ways to leverage Victrex’s LMPAEK polymer in thermoplastic composites.

Gilles Larroque

Strategic Marketing Manager, Victrex

Gilles Larroque joined Victrex in 2011; he is in charge of the strategic marketing activity for the aerospace business unit. Prior to joining Victrex, Gilles worked in the medical devices industry for Zimmer Spine from 2005 to 2011 in product development for spinal applications. He started his career in 2001 as an R&D mechanical engineer consultant in various positions in aerospace and defense sectors.  Gilles graduated with an engineer degree in mechanical system from the University of Technology in Troyes, France in 2001. Starting in 1999, he also graduated with a master’s degree in engineering from Florida Atlantic University in the U.S. in 2001.

Petros Karapapas

Technologist, Victrex

Petros is an aerospace engineer with postgraduate studies in composite materials and a Ph.D. in nanocomposite materials. For the last 15 years, he has been at the forefront of civil and military aerospace composite materials and structures. In his career, he has worked with all the major aerospace customers for the certification and qualification of composite materials including technical support for composite materials already in service. Moreover, he has developed high-temperature composite aerospace parts, including their automated manufacturing process and post-processing procedures. He is an experienced evaluator of technical and scientific proposals both at the national and European levels. The last two years he has been a member of the Victrex team based in the U.K., where he leads the development of materials and processes and progressing through technology readiness level (TRL) phases with aerospace customers, including technical feasibility assessments on strategic portfolio projects.