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» Schedule
» Abstracts
» Speaker Bios
» Program Guide

Awards

» Best Paper Awards
» Student Scholarship Awards
» Student Poster Competition
» Composites Person of the Year

Keynotes & Panel Discussion

» Keynote Speakers
» Panel Discussion

Technical Papers by Session

    » Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing
    » Advances in Reinforcement Technologies
    » Advances in Thermoplastic Composites
    » Advances in Thermoset Composites
    » Bonding, Joining & Finishing
    » Enabling Technologies
    » Nanocomposites
    » Opportunities & Challenges with Carbon Composites
    » Sustainable Composites
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This proceedings contains the technical program for the 16th-Annual SPE® Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE®), the world's leading automotive composites forum.

Please click on the links on the left-hand column to learn more about this year's conference or access the technical program.

  • "About" provides links for the conference and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE®).

  • "Welcome" contains an overview by event chair, Rani Richardson.

  • "Sponsors" salutes our sponsors & exhibitors who make the ACCE possible.

  • "Contributors" shows the team that put the conference together.

  • "Schedule" lists the technical program by day, session, and room.

  • "Abstracts" contains mini-abstracts for each keynote and technical presentation.

  • "Speaker Bios" provides short biographical information about our keynote and regular session speakers and panel-discussion members.

  • "Program Guide" provides the complete conference guide.

  • "Best Papers" honors the 2016 SPE ACCE Best Paper Award winners.

  • "Scholarships" introduces the newest SPE ACCE & Dr. Jackie Rehkopf Scholarship winners.

  • "Posters" announces participants in the SPE Student Poster Competition to be held at the show.

  • "Composites Person of the Year" announces the SPE Composites Division's Composites Person of the Year award winner.

  • "Keynote Speakers" offers short overviews for each keynote topic or the speaker's presentation.

  • "Panel Discussion" provides the purpose statement for the Executive Panel Discussion.

  • Under "Technical Papers by Session" select a session to view content for each technical track. Once that page loads, click on the PDF icon next to a given topic to view the paper, presentation, or abstract that was available at press time.



Access content from previous SPE ACCE conferences .

For more information on the SPE Automotive Composites Conference, visit www.speautomotive.com/comp.htm or write the SPE Automotive Division, 1800 Crooks Road, Suite A, Troy MI 48084, USA.

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