Descripción del proyecto
Fabricar metamateriales para lograr una Europa más silenciosa
¿Qué es ese ruido? Si suena muy alto, puede crear estrés físico y psicológico. Los ruidos fuertes también reducen la productividad y dificultan la concentración. Sin embargo, las soluciones actuales para el ruido y las vibraciones requieren una masa o un volumen demasiado grandes para ser factibles en la práctica, en especial para las frecuencias más bajas. Los metamateriales han mostrado un potencial inmenso para las soluciones compactas de baja masa con excelentes características de ruido y vibración. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto METAVISION, financiado con fondos europeos, proporcionará formación sobre estas soluciones innovadoras a los doctorandos. El objetivo es que desarrollen nuevos métodos de diseño y análisis a fin de ampliar el rendimiento y la aplicabilidad de los metamateriales y los conviertan en soluciones para el ruido y la vibraciones que puedan fabricarse y aplicarse a gran escala en la industria.
Objetivo
METAVISION aims to reconcile two conflicting trends. On the one hand, people become increasingly aware of the negative health impact of excessive noise and vibration exposure. On the other hand, every kilogram of mass removed from the logistics chain has a direct economic and ecological benefit. Current noise and vibration solutions still require too much mass or volume to be practically feasible, particularly for lower frequencies. There is thus a strong need for low mass, compact material solutions with excellent noise and vibration characteristics, for which recently emerged so-called metamaterials (MM) have shown immense potential. The goal of METAVISION is to provide high-quality training on these innovative solutions to a new generation of high achieving doctoral candidates and to provide them with the scientific and transferable skills needed for successful careers in this key area which brings together scientific, technological, and societal challenges. This will be achieved by combining a research programme which aims to (i) develop novel design and analysis methods in view of broadening the performance and applicability of MM, (ii) revolutionize the manufacturing of MM towards large-scale and versatile solutions and (iii) advance academically proven MM concepts towards industrially relevant applications, with an interdisciplinary training programme composed of scientific and transferable skill courses and intersectoral and international secondments. Both programmes are brought together in unique industrial demonstrator projects.
METAVISION gathers universities, research institutes and small- and large-scale industry from manufacturing, construction, transportation, and machine design sectors with the relevant expertise to create the coordinated research environment needed to bring MM from academic concepts to large-scale manufacturable and industrially applicable noise and vibration solutions, paving the way towards a quieter and greener Europe.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinador
3000 Leuven
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