Swiss SAMPE Conference 2026

Swiss SAMPE Conference 2026 Location: ETH Zurich
Date: 15th January 2026

 

 

The Swiss SAMPE Chapter, the ETH Zürich and Composites United Switzerland are very pleased to invite you to the 11th Technical Conference of the Swiss SAMPE Chapter on the topic: Virtualising Composites - Technologies and Trends in Composite Simulations.

Date:                  Thursday, 15th January 2026

Location:             ETH Zurich, Zentrum Campus, Room CAB G 51

Time:                  09.00-17.30

Registration: Please register at https://www.ost.ch/ssctc until 9th January 2026.

The registration is free of charge for SAMPE Members, ETHZ/EPFL/Empa Members, Participants from Composites United Switzerland, including Member Companies and Institutes, and Students (Bachelor, Master and PhD Students from Swiss Universities and Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences).

Non-members should sign up to SAMPE Europe before registration to the conference at https://www.sampe-europe.org/membership

Questions? Please check the attached flyer

Further Information:

About SAMPE membership: Riana Jongema, SAMPE Europe, administration@sampe-europe.org

About Composite United Switzerland membership: Theo Sandu, CU Switzerland, theo-sandu@composites-united.com

About any organizational matter: Gion Barandun, Technical Director Swiss SAMPE Chapter, gion.barandun@ost.ch

 

Programme

09:00

Registration & Coffee

09:30

Opening address
Dr. Oliver Döbrich, President Swiss SAMPE Chapter

09:40

Keynote: Investigation of safety kinematics for high-pressure CFRP hydrogen vessels under side Pole crash
Marlies Springmann, Institute of Aircraft Design, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart

10:10

Microscale modelling of technical textiles for prediction of macroscopic drape behaviour
Dr. Oliver Döbrich, IMPE Institute of Materials and Process Engineering, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Open source FEA simulation for composites with Salome_MECA

Dr. Markus Zogg, Inspire AG, Zürich & Prof. Dr. Gion A. Barandun, IWK Institut für Werkstofftechnik und Kunststoffverarbeitung, OST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule, Rapperswil

11:20

"Low-Tech" Composite Processing Simulation for Efficient Training of Engineers

Dr. Fabien Cara, TFX SA, Boncourt & Composites Academy

11:40

FEA of Tailored Fiber Placement Parts – freedom and challenges

Jascha Schmied, Bionic Composite Technologies AG, St. Gallen

12:00

Lunch & Networking

13:30

Reinforcing Elements - A new approach to model complex layered composite structures
Dr. René Roos, ANSYS Switzerland, Zürich

13:50

Fatigue with Composites – State-of-the-art in Simulation

Prof. Dr. Davide Valtorta, Department of Innovative Technologies, SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland

14:10

Physics-augmented digital twins for guided wave ultrasonic inspections of composite materials
Christian Boehm, Mondaic AG, Zurich

14:30

Coffee Break

15:00

Artificial Intelligence in Composites Engineering and Manufacturing
Maximilian Holland, Fraunhofer Fraunhofer-Institut für Gießerei-, Composite- und Verarbeitungstechnik IGCV, Augsburg

15:30

Multiscale Computational Analysis of Fiber Ondulation Effects on the Shear Properties of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Plastics

Armin Farzin, Institute of Lightweight Structures, Professorship of Textile Technologies, TU Chemnitz

16:00

Closing remarks

Dr. Oliver Döbrich, President Swiss SAMPE Chapter

16:10

Networking Apéro

17:30

End of Event

Location

ETH Zurich

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