Marcel Elenbaas, graduated in Naval Architecture at HTS Haarlem in 2000.
First period working at innovation agency Willems & Van den Wildenberg, and since 2003 employed as composites expert at Damen Schelde Marine Construction, now called Damen Naval. Built up composite knowledge from various European collaborations, after which he was involved in the introduction of composites within Damen Shipyards Gorinchem since 2012. From Gorinchem, responsible for the introduction of a new product, namely the composite water bus which is now in service in Antwerp, among other places.

Since 2015 as lead engineer back at the development department of Damen Naval in which Marcel is project leader for, among other things, the technology development to manufacture larger composite ships (up to 85 metres) in composite. Marcel explains how this process has gone within the European partnership called RAMSSES. https://www.ramsses-project.eu/

The presentation explains the development process gone through, with each of the partners contributing to the result achieved. This ranges from material development, production of demonstrator, validation of design and production, to Approval in Principle of large marine composite structures. Especially the approach to fire safety is a reason for Damen to seek cooperation with industry, knowledge institutes and classification societies.

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