Descripción del proyecto
Estructuras compuestas para la construcción y el transporte sostenibles
La actual crisis climática ha provocado catástrofes ecológicas sin precedentes, como las recientes olas de calor que causaron aproximadamente 12 000 muertos y la peor sequía de los últimos 500 años de historia europea. Esta catástrofe medioambiental puede atribuirse en gran medida a los sectores de la construcción y el transporte, que dependen sobre todo del combustible y son responsables de alrededor del 60 % de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero de la Unión Europea. El equipo del proyecto MULTIOpStruct, financiado por las acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, pretende mejorar la sostenibilidad de estos sectores y reducir su impacto ambiental abordando sus estructuras de componentes obsoletas y perjudiciales. El equipo del proyecto investigará y desarrollará estructuras compuestas alternativas que den prioridad a la sostenibilidad y el respeto por el medio ambiente, haciéndolas aptas para su uso comercial.
Objetivo
Due to unmitigated global warming, the EU has suffered unprecedented heatwaves in 2022 resulting in over 12,000 deaths and Europe's worst drought in 500 years. This is attributed to the heavily fuel-dependent construction and transportation sectors - collectively responsible for around 60% of EU's greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. The chief reason lies in these industries' over-reliance on legacy/outdated component architectures, with limited life-cycles and non-optimal functional performance. Consequently, there is an urgent ecological-societal need and associated research challenge for tailoring alternative optimized composite structures that are sustainable, eco-friendly and suited for commercial deployment. MultiOpStruct aims to deliver an integrated design environment capable of addressing these concerns by adopting a highly inter-disciplinary methodology inspired by the “material-by-design” outlook; and greatly expanding the current state-of-the-art by coordinating cutting edge research. On the modelling side, the work will develop a novel, rapid and high-fidelity physics-based method custom fit for analysing such complex components. On the design side, the project will deliver the first ever Hybrid Multiscale-Artificial Intelligence Topology Optimization toolbox for multifunctional lightweight Additively Manufactured (AM) Composite structures with increased durability and thermal-vibro-acoustic isolation; and decreased net-costs. This will reduce fuel dependency and associated emissions - and subsequently alleviate problems induced by climate change, e.g. glacier retreat. These goals are strongly aligned with the Circular Economic Action Plan, European Green Deal and Fit for 55 policy. For succesful completion, the proposed research plan brings together an enthusiastic and talented researcher with expertise in computational mechanics with an interdisciplinary team of internationally recognized research groups in applied mechanics and Additive Manufacturing.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
3000 Leuven
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