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EASN invites you to its 2nd of
a series of specialized Workshops, this time in the fields of Flight
Physics and propulsion. The EASN workshop will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 31st
of October until 2nd of November.
For materializing this workshop,
EASN will coordinate its efforts with the VZLU aerospace research and
test establishment in Prague. The workshop aims to be a major
dissemination event for running research projects and also a forum for
new ideas for future research.
During this 3-day event, the
General Assembly meeting of the EASN Association will also take place.
For useful information about the
workshop visit the EASN
website
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The 6th FP7 call for proposals is
now open! The budget is €134.950.000 and the deadline for submission is
the 14th of November 2012 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time). For more
information visit: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/cooperation?callIdentifier=FP7-AAT-2013-RTD-1
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Professor Jacco
Hoekstra, Co-chairman of ACARE's Working Group 5 on Research
Infrastructures and Education, offered an interview about the efforts and
challenges for exploiting Europe's human potential in Aeronautics.
Read
the interview
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“EASN Endorsed Projects: lessons learnt from a success story”
Professor Spiros Pantelakis,
Chairman of the EASN Association, comments on the successful outcome of
the EASN endorsed projects by the last call and refers to the lessons
learnt in the frame of the proposals.
The interview is available on the EASN website
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Following the success of the
previous Expression of Interest campaign (1/3 EASN endorsed projects
funded), EASN is endorsing 8 research projects for submission in the 6th
FP7 call.
For more information visit the EASN website
The abstracts of the EASN endorsed
projects and the expression of interest for participation form is
available to all EASN members here
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Professor Spiros
Pantelakis, Chairman of the EASN Association offered an interview in “Public Service Review: European
Science & Technology”
magazine about the continuing advances of the European
aeronautical sector, which is about to become a global leader in the
field.
The interview is
also available for online viewing here
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EASN endorsed projects: Latest
achievements
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The INMA project (www.inmaproject.eu), aiming at developing an innovative manufacturing technology to
fabricate complex Ti sheet components, has recently generated new results
related to incremental forming technology and modeling approaches.
Results to highlight include practical
guidelines to decrease material springback in cold forming operations,
significant reductions of computation time in FEA and steps forward the
implementation of a KB model to compensate material springback.
Additionally, the global heating prototype device is being improved to
guarantee a controlled operation temperature. The project passed recently
its 1st Periodic Review with success.
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ENCOMB aims at identifying,
developing, and adapting advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) methods
for assessment of adhesive bond quality of CFRP structures for aeronautic
applications. The first test campaign for screening of promising
techniques using samples with different surface contaminations and weak
bonds has been completed.
Those techniques that showed principal
suitability to detect the contaminations/defects/weak bonds are now being
adapted in a second test campaign. For the different contamination /
degradation scenarios samples with different levels of contamination have
been prepared and characterized by conventional NDT and mechanical tests.
The novel techniques will be now optimized to meet the sensitivity
requirements.
For more information visit: www.encomb.eu
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News from the Aeronautical community
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COOPERATEUS is in its phase
2 accomplishment. Promising projects have been identified particularly in
the upstream studies like the ones proposed by the Academia, but not only
on that area. The E.C. has already given guidelines to support these in
the recent 6th call of the 7th FRP.
Ex: Possibilities for human mobility actions between the EU and
the US Academia; Structural Health Monitoring for Composite Materials and
Structures; Research on psychoacoustical effects of noise; Packaging
Reusable for Integrated Modular Avionics and Electronic , PRIMAEUS. IAEG
focus areas are electable with chemical products standards, greenhouse
gases, Standard environmental vocabulary. The EADS initiative on biofuels
as well. For more information visit: http://www.cooperateus.org/pdf/news-letter_June2012V3.pdf
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SARISTU (Smart Intelligent Aircraft
Structures) aims to improve the aircraft total weight, manufacturing cost
and, above all, operational cost. Partially funded by the European
Commission this 51Mio€ budget project brings together 64 partners from 16
European countries.
During the first 10 months a high
progress was made within the three distinct technological areas: airfoil
Conforming Morphing, Self-sensing and Multifunctional Materials through
the use of nanoreinforced resins. Starting with the concepts, the focus
was on defining specifications regarding simulations and testing.
Followed by defining the design of the revised parts of the aircraft wing
and fuselage, the tasks become even more precisely and comprehensive.
More information about the SARISTU
project is available at: www.saristu.eu
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The HERMES project is actively identifying transport research
databases and their managers in road, rail, waterborne and aeronautics
from the USA, Japan, Australia and the EU with a view to linking these
into an international dedicated transport research portal.
Currently, the HERMES partners are
gathering transport research databases and projects worldwide to compare
and identify the obstacles to accessing and linking cross-border
databases. This information is assisting in the design and development of
the international transport research portal that will improve the collaboration
in transport R&D and provide a list of recommendations that will
allow the creation of a global transport research community.
More information is available at: www.hermes-portal.net
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SUNJET (www.sunjet-project.eu) is dedicated to foster the
cooperation between Europe and Japan in the field of aerospace research
and innovation.
As from the starting date of the
project (1st of June 2011) the work has been concentrated on the Build-up
ad-hoc EU-Japan R&T cooperation areas of mutual benefit and proposal
for win-win R&T roadmaps.
For the time being, the Focal
Points of European manufacturing industry, Research Establishments and
Labs, and the Universities are in the phase of constructing concerted
roadmaps. A Workshop is foreseen
on July 11 at Farnborough in order to set out recommendations for future
collaboration and to prepare the Final Workshop at Nagoya on October 9.
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ITU CAL has
initiated a new ATM research project with Resilence2050.eu. The FP7-AAT
funded project’s main objective is to analyze weakness in resilience
ability of the current air traffic system and develop new design
principles fostering safety, agility and resilience for airspace picture
of 2050.
For more information visit:
http://cal.uubf.itu.edu.tr/CAL/About_CAL.html
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HALA! – SESAR funded AutoFly-Aid project is
commenced by ITU CAL. The
project aims to develop novel automation support algorithms and tools to
the flight crew for flight critical collision avoidance using dynamic 4D
trajectory management with hybrid and stochastic dynamic airspace model.
More information is available at:
http://cal.uubf.itu.edu.tr/CAL/About_CAL.html
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 TEEG
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A complete set of numerical tools for turbomachinery analysis is
available. Uncertainty quantification is applied to specific topics and
to unsteady combustor-turbine interaction. The latter is described taking
into account metal temperature, cooling systems, cavity flows and flow
control devices.
Further information is available at:
http://www2.de.unifi.it/Macchine/Martelli/TEEG/index.ita.php and
https://sites.google.com/site/thenumericalcorner/home
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KhAI-ERA FP7 project - special support
action within FP7 Capacities aimed on National Aerospace University “KhAI” (Ukraine) integration into ERA and its research EU
cooperation capacities increasing in the areas of: composite materials,
dependable embedded systems, and aircraft assembly techniques.
More information is available at: http://khai-era.khai.edu/
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At the Aero-Physics Laboratory we commonly
use black/white , and colour schlieren technique to conduct detailed flow
visualisation e.g. British Isles and Ireland at Mach 5 flow.
For more information visit:
http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/academic/profile/index.html?staffId=168
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