About

Pultrusion expertise

Smart Pultrusion was founded by Dr. Ismet Baran as a spin-off from the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Dr. Baran obtained his PhD degree on the topic of pultrusion of offshore wind turbine blade components. He has developed the state-of-the-art numerical process modelling frameworks for pultrusion to understand, describe, predict and optimize the material behaviour. He is the leader of the Pultrusion Lab at the University of Twente and has more than 11-years of academic and industrial experience in pultrusion technologies including:

  • Research and development in pultrusion
  • Carbon pultrusion
  • Glass pultrusion
  • Polyurethane, vinyl ester, polyester, acrylic thermoplastic resins
  • Injection box design and optimization
  • Thermoplastic pultrusion
  • Designing heating and cooling dies
  • Heater configuration and optimization
  • Resin formulation and characterization
  • Curing and rheology kinetics
  • Cure shrinkage and curing cracks minimization
  • Pulling speed maximization
  • Mechanical properties and performance
  • Qualification and certification

He is the author of the book “Pultrusion: State-of-the-art Process Models”. More information about Dr. Baran, his research activities and scientific publications related not only to pultrusion but also to other composite manufacturing technologies can be found at www.ismetbaran.com.

Focus

The focus of Smart Pultrusion is to provide immediate and short-term proprietary and confidential solutions to the industry via the process simulation software and engineering services. Smart Pultrusion has strong links and close collaboration with the University of Twente for long-term research projects in the field of process-structure-property relationships in pultrusion processes.

Mission

The mission of Smart Pultrusion is to help the industry to optimize the manufacturing processes, develop innovative material systems and accelerate new product developments. This is realized by providing the services around the simulation software and engineering consultancy.