Objectif "Cyanate ester resins offer significant advantages as composite matrices because of their high thermal stability, their improved toughness, low outgassing, low moisture uptake and radiation resistance due to their low dielectric constant. Towards the direction of incorporating these materials in the aerospace industry, a new glass/cyanate ester material system was characterized for use in the plenum of the air cooling unit of aircrafts. However, the first trials with this new prepreg to manufacture real parts (plenum housing) in an autoclave, highlighted some heterogeneity issues in the reliability and reproducibility of the manufacturing process.PLENOPTIMUM project aims to address the reasons that lead to the aforementioned heterogeneities and through a novel Design of Experiments approach identify a number of possible influential factors that affect the manufacturing process (in autoclave and out-of-autoclave) and potentially cause deviations and heterogeneities. For the first time, factors additional to temperature profile and pressure shall be examined according to their effect on the final quality of the composite materials and the actual plenum. Process modeling as well as online curing monitoring technologies will assist the optimization task and the quest of the optimum curing cycle.Manufacturing trials for plenum manufacturing in an autoclave as well as out-of-autoclave process will take place in the final part of the project taking into account the results of a test campaign specially designed to highlight the effect each one of the identified influential factors has. Guidelines and recommendations to the topic manager and manufacturer that ensure and optimize the manufacturing process are the final outcome.Both participants that form PLENOPTIMUM consortium have a strong background and experience on processing/manufacturing optimization and have the proper infrastructure to meet the targets set." Champ scientifique engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringengineering and technologymaterials engineeringcompositesnatural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryinorganic compoundsengineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft Programme(s) FP7-JTI - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Joint Technology Initiatives Thème(s) JTI-CS-2013-2-ECO-01-072 - Manufacturing optimization of a plenum with GFRP cyanate ester-based prepeg Appel à propositions SP1-JTI-CS-2013-02 Voir d’autres projets de cet appel Régime de financement JTI-CS - Joint Technology Initiatives - Clean Sky Coordinateur PANEPISTIMIO PATRON Contribution de l’UE € 116 550,00 Adresse UNIVERSITY CAMPUS RIO PATRAS 265 04 Rio Patras Grèce Voir sur la carte Région Κεντρική Ελλάδα Δυτική Ελλάδα Αχαΐα Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Vassilis Kostopoulos (Prof.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (1) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION Espagne Contribution de l’UE € 108 012,00 Adresse PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE GIPUZKOA, PASEO MIKELETEGI 2 20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA) Voir sur la carte Région Noreste País Vasco Gipuzkoa Type d’activité Research Organisations Contact administratif Maria Jesus Jurado Onate (Dr.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée