Project description
Innovative bulk materials to drive transport industries
The ageing European transport industries are undergoing a transition towards a smarter form through digitalisation. However, despite this modernisation, further innovation is necessary to ensure the continued efficient operation of modern transport industries. The EU-funded MASTRO project aims to develop intelligent bulk materials specifically designed for the transport sector. These materials can be used efficiently for various purposes, contributing to component maintenance and improvement. By incorporating modern technologies such as self-sensing, self-protection, self-healing, self-de-icing and self-curing, these materials will enhance components’ efficiency and lifespan while reducing manufacturing and maintenance costs.
Objective
MASTRO Project aim is to develop intelligent bulk materials for the transport sector based on the novel concepts like self-sensing, self-deicing, self-curing, self-healing and self-protection methodologies to increase consumer safety, component life-span and performance while reducing maintenance and manufacturing costs. The functionality of the developed components will be demonstrated under relevant conditions at prototype level for the aerospace, automotive and transport transport networks. These developments will be supported by theoretical material models to capture the self-responsive functionalities. The outputs of the Project will consist of numerous applications in these sectors.
The matrices addressed consist of lightweight polymer composites like glass/carbon fibre reinforced polymers and thermoplastic materials (including melt-spinning for textiles used in the transport sector) together with asphalt and concrete formulations incorporating electrical carbon-based conductive nanomaterials. These self-responsive functionalities are based on two physical phenomena: piezoresistivity and Joule effect. The aim of self-responsiveness properties can be summarized as follows:
Self-sensing: to confer to the intelligent components the ability to monitor/store data about its own condition in terms of vibrations, defects, fatigue, creep and strain.
Self-deicing: to avoid the ice layer formation or the loss of performance due to cold weather.
Self-curing: to increase quality and durability while reducing manufacturing cost of the polymer composites and cement concrete formulations by improving the curing process step.
Self-healing: to aid the repair of polymer composites and asphalt concrete formulations by healing those materials without the need of an external and expensive maintenance operation.
Self-protection: to minimize the failure occurrence in case of electrostatic charge accumulation or lightning impacts by discharging the voltage through the smart component
Fields of science
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringcomposites
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynano-materials
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuels
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28033 MADRID
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Participants (18)
35127 Padova
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03001 Alicante
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92700 Colombes
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80805 MUNCHEN
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RG12 7AH BRACKNELL
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72100 Cittadella Della Ricerca Brindisi
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73100 Lecce
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4760 034 Vila Nova De Famalicao
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4760 034 VILA NOVA DE FAMALICAO
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10145 Torino
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2615-315 Vila Franca De Xira
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01100 Bellignat
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03690 Alicante
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84084 Fisciano Sa
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S10 2TN Sheffield
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56203 HOHR GRENZHAUSEN
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28030 MADRID
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2615315 Alverca Do Ribatejo
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