Project description
Pioneering fibre-hybrid composites for lightweight structures
The demand for lightweight structures is growing as industries strive to meet stricter emission regulations. Fibre-reinforced composites are a promising solution owing to their strength, stiffness and adaptability, yet poor resistance to delamination and lack of advanced design tools limit their potential. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the INFORM project aims to create novel fibre-hybrid composites that combine carbon and glass fibres to minimise delamination. Tailored, high-performance structures will be designed by leveraging automated manufacturing techniques such as 3D printing. Project innovations could boost lightweight structure designs, offering industries damage-resistant solutions.
Objective
Lightweight structures are becoming increasingly essential to meet global emission regulations. Fiber-reinforced composites (FRPs) constitute a highly profitable and fast-growing market for the EU. Their high stiffness and strength and design flexibility enable designing lightweight structures with a low carbon footprint. In contrast, two main drawbacks hinder their industrial exploitation: poor delamination resistance and limited design space due to the lack of robust design tools and the limited capability of past production technologies. Fiber hybridization (i.e. combining two or more fiber types) increases their design space and can improve their toughness. Thus, fiber-hybrid FRPs are rapidly gaining market share in structural applications. Unfortunately, delamination modeling is challenging because several damage mechanisms occur simultaneously and interact at multiple physical length-scales. This fellowship will tackle these issues by developing novel fiber-hybrid (INFORM) FRPs by combining carbon and glass fibers to minimize delaminations, thus addressing current industrial needs for damage tolerance, weight savings, and sustainability. A multi-scale analytical and numerical approach will be developed to understand and analyze INFORM FRPs with unique performances. The optimal INFORM structures will be manufactured, tested, and analyzed through detailed damage analyses to build a fine-tuned design tool. This design tool will be translated into industry-friendly packages for direct exploitation. Automated manufacturing technologies (e.g. 3D printing) will also be used to tailor INFORM designs locally. Thus, macro-components will be created with locally improved delamination resistance without a weight increase. The fellowship will take place at KUL. The training plan, research work, and dissemination activities will serve as ideal preparation for the ER to lead a research group in or out of academia in the future.
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- engineering and technology materials engineering fibers
- engineering and technology materials engineering composites
- engineering and technology materials engineering amorphous solids
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01
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3000 Leuven
Belgium
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