During the first reporting period production technology to be used for each part of pax and cargo floor was fixed. Infact, the technology indicated in the project proposal for some items was confirmed, in other cases, due to design and construction constraints, the technology has changed as for the pax floor beam that will be manufactured in thermoset composites.
The following activities were done during this period:
• FEM simulation of PRF production process activities were concluded in time
• Tools design and realization for the induction welding of thermoplastic composite profiles are been concluded
• IRT procedure for the real time monitoring of PRF production process was designed and tested on real scale
• Tools design and manufactured for composite parts are been concluded
During the second reporting period the major part of activities were closed in order to ship the the cargo floor grid to the topic manager.
Thermoplastic items of cargo floor grid were manufactured, welded thanks to induction welding and drilled and trimmed with CNC machining in order to obtain the final shape according to the 3D model. The last step, before dimensional control, was the painting of all thermoplastic items.
All the metallic parts both of cargo and pax floor grid were CNC machining and surface treatment was done according to TM.
As required, the cargo floor grid was shipped as spare parts, instead for the pax floor design and manufacturing of assembly jig was required.
SPARE showcased the obtained results with a dissemination and communication activities in line with its plan participating in international fairs, conferences, B2B meetings with aerospace industry companies and national technical workshops and webinars. Moreover, additional actions were performed such as web site and social media management and update, periodic e-Newsletters publication, liaison with other sister projects, and media kit design and update.
Finally, in order to push the SPARE solutions to go to the market, the main exploitable results were identified and characterized with an initial exploitation plan.
