Skip to main content
Go to the home page of the European Commission (opens in new window)
English English
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS
Content archived on 2024-05-27

Smart lightweight structures in aerospace and transportation applications

Objective

DLR is Germany's largest aerospace research establishment. Located at DLR's Institute of Structural Mechanics, the Department of Adaptive Structural Systems is the largest group of researchers to investigate smart lightweight structures in Germany. It is strongly committed to national and international collaboration with partners from industry and academia. Due to the system approach to smart structures, the department's activities span the entire range of modelling, design, manufacturing, control and experimental investigation of smart structures for shape control, vibration and noise reduction, and health monitoring applications. These activities are focused on the realization of carbon fibre structures with integrated actuators and sensors. The department's facilities include all equipment required for the experimental investigation of smart structures, i.e. accelerometers, powers amplifiers, data acquisition systems, controller development hardware, optical systems for static and dynamic deformation measurement, and FFT analyzers. Data processing is facilitated by a PC network, that is also used for finite element and multi-body simulations, and controller development. The manufacturing of smart composite structures is enabled by the institute's facilities, i.e. autoclave, filament winding machine, and resin injection facility. Available processes range from prepreg technology to differential pressure resin transfer molding. The training opportunities include analytical and numerical analysis, manufacturing technology, experimental investigation and development of control algorithms. According to the fellow's priorities, the training schedule will be individually adjusted. By collaborating with highly experienced scientists in interdisciplinary teams assigned to various tasks in national and international projects fellows will benefit from the training. Apart from a solid scientific background, high motivation and team orientation is required.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.

You need to log in or register to use this function

Topic(s)

Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.

Data not available

Call for proposal

Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.

Data not available

Funding Scheme

Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.

BUR - Bursaries, grants, fellowships

Coordinator

GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTRE
EU contribution
No data
Address
Lilienthalplatz 7
38108 BRAUNSCHWEIG
Germany

See on map

Total cost

The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.

No data
My booklet 0 0