- Start: 01/09/2019
- End: 31/10/2022
In materials science, a composite laminate is an assembly of layers of fibrous composite materials. These materials are bonded together to give added strength, durability and provide required engineering properties. Laminates are usually based on four main materials: wood, glass, fabric, and paper.
The EU-funded ELADINE project is developing a method to evaluate the distortion of laminate composites in a number of scenarios. This includes test coupons manufacturing, measurements of distortion and its correlation to a numerical tool for the evaluation of a sub-scale demonstrator, and finally, a full seven-metre composite wing.
AIMEN’s rol:
- Define materials and procedures (manufacturing processes, resin, carbon fibres, moulds, DC sensors, fibre optic sensors, etc.).
- Define the experimental trials based on the parameters that the simulation tool will need to analyze/simulate the spring-in phenomenon for integral structures.
- Analyze the macro-distortion sources during the composite manufacturing.
- Develop a procedure of adapting and embedding sensors (dielectric and fibre optic) to obtain proper, useful and accurate signals of the manufacturing parameters (T, α, strain).
- Correlate the signal/curves of sensors with the manufacturing processes to obtain on-line process monitoring information.
- Compare and calibrate the sensors signals with DSC and DMA analyses.
- Sectors: Aeronautical
- Financing programme: CLEAN SKY 2
- R&D&i: Integrated monitoring and control systems, Multimaterial systems
- Leader: National Institute for Aerospace Research Elie Carafoli - INCAS
- Partners: AIMEN Centro Tecnológico
- Acronym: ELADINE
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://www.eladine-project.eu/index.html
FEDER