6th EASN annual International Conference
on Innovation in European Aeronautics Research October 18 - 21, 2016 • Porto, Portugal

This October, EASN’s 6th annual Conference will take place in Porto co-organised with the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI).
The Abstract submission has finished on June the 13th with great success as a very big number of works were accepted and will be presented in the Conference.
The 6th EASN Conference will include the following Workshops and Sessions:
A)Workshop On Adhesive Bonding Technology For Aeronautics Manufacturing
Chaired by Welchy Cavalcanti & Kai Brune
A1)Session On Quality Assurance Concepts For Adhesive Bonding
Chaired by Welchy Cavalcanti & Kai Brune
B)Workshop On Aircraft Design / Flight Physics / Systems
Chaired by Zdobyslaw Goraj & Eike Stumpf
B1)Session On Design Challenges for Future Passenger Aircraft
Chaired by Markus Fischer
B2)Session On Vortex Dynamics
Chaired by Eike Stumpf
B3)Session On Small Air Transport Challenges
Chaired by Krzysztof Piwek
B4)Session On Aircraft Design Within Agile Project
Chaired by Björn Nagel
B5)Session On Multi Disciplinary Optimisation
Chaired by Tomasz Grabowski
B6)Session On Design challenges for future aero-engines
Chaired by Pawel Stezycki
B7)Session On Hybrid – electric propulsion
Chaired by Holger Kuhn & Mirko Hornung
B8)Session On Modelling and Simulation of Flight Physics
Chaired by Shia-Hui Peng
C)Workshop On Innovation & Emerging Technologies In Aeronautical Materials & Structures
Chaired By Spiros Pantelakis & Mario Guagliano
C1)Mini Workshop On Innovative Multifunctional Materials For Aeronautics
Chaired by Vicenzo Tucci
C2)Session On Characterization & Modeling Of Nanofilled Polymers & Composites
Chaired by Konstantinos Tserpes
D)Workshop On Fatigue of Aeronautical Materials & Structures
Chaired by Paulo T. De Castro
E)Workshop On Unmanned Aerial Systems: Future Challenges
Chaired by Fulvia Quagliotti
F)Workshop On The Cater Project
Chaired by Romain Kervarc & Irene Phantelaki
G) Workshop On Alternative Fuels
Organised by Inmaculada Gomez Jimenez
H)Workshop on the CAPPADOCIA Project
Chaired by Fabien Marty & Irene Pantelaki
I)Workshop on Coordination and Support Actions on Aeronautics
Chaired by Irene Pantelaki
J)Session On The Toica Project
Chaired by Jean-Claude Dunyach
K)Session On The I-Vision Project
Chaired by Loukas Rentzos
L)Session Organised By Inegi
Chaired by Pedro Moreira
M)Session on the BOPACS Project
Chaired by Jan Halm

More information about the Conference will be posted on a regular basis on the EASN website as well as on the 6th EASN International Conference minisite.

Exhibition in the frame of the 6th EASN annual International Conference on Innovation in European Aeronautics Research
October 18 - 21, 2016 • Porto, Portugal

For the 6th EASN Conference we invite Companies, Universities and Research Organisations to present their services and products, to our members and Conference participants. This is an ideal opportunity to showcase your work to those who matter for your business as it instantly puts you in the heart of the aeronautics community. The 6th Conference is set to be the first to see a purposeful exhibition zone and we are keen to create a unique event experience for the participants. Therefore we are offering to a limited number of entities with innovative products or services and to companies offering products that serve the Aeronautics Researchers’ needs, an exclusive and one off opportunity to demonstrate their work free of charge.
Among others, several European Labs, Companies and Research Establishments will be demonstrating their achievements and capabilities in the Conference’s exhibition.
A limited number of exhibiting spaces is still available and interested parties should contact info[at]easnconference.eu.

Interview of Bruno Sainjon, Chairman and CEO of ONERA and newly elected Chairman of EREA

Bruno Sainjon, Chairman and CEO of ONERA was recently elected as the new EREA Chairman to replace the outgoing Josef Kaspar, Chairman of VZLU. Under his leadership EREA and its groups will review and adapt the EREA strategy according to the new boundary conditions laid down in Flightpath 2050. EREA will continue to contribute and participate to ACARE in order to contribute to the European research and innovation strategy in Aviation (SRIA).
In this frame, we are delighted to host an interview where he shares his views on the significance of long-term upstream research for Aeronautics and he assesses the perspectives for performing aeronautics-related upstream research within H2020 and FP9.

Read the full interview on the EASN website.

Interview of Victoria Mozo Montemayor and Manuel Sánchez-Blanco on Alternative Fuels

During the 6th EASN International Conference, a very interesting Workshop on Alternative Fuels will take place chaired by Inmaculada Gomez Jimenez.
In this frame, we invited Victoria Mozo Montemayor, expert in policy development referred to biofuels on aviation and Manuel Sánchez-Blanco, Mining Engineer from SENASA, to talk to us about the current researches, the social impacts and the challenges on convincing Air Carriers to implement them.
Victoria Mozo Montemayor is offering technical assistance in relation to the EU Emissions Trading System. She is an expert on Environmental Impact Assessment in Airports and Aerodromes and on Environmental Aviation activities.
Manuel Sánchez-Blanco is a biofuel expert, specialising in Innovation Management, Renewables & Energy Efficiency. He is responsible for Exploitation and IPR in ITAKA Project (Initiative Towards Sustainable Kerosene for Aviation), he is also actively participating in other projects related to aviation and the environment: CORE JET-FUEL (www.core-jetfuel.eu) and FORUM AE (www.forum-ae.eu).

Read the full interview on the EASN website.

The end-users have provided selected samples and have defined the surface preparation and deposition parameters to be used for the repairs. Additional components are being used for the evaluation of the tooling and fixture capabilities, and the validation of the first deposition results. A different Al alloy C355 powder feedstock in the -45+20µm size range and spherical particle morphology was manufactured and utilized for Cold Spray trials at TWI Ltd. The trials concentrated on maximum process parameters in order to obtain higher density Al alloy coatings with improved mechanical properties. Indeed, the metallographic examination of coatings using this powder, confirmed previous findings that increasing gas temperature and pressure, significantly reduces the coating porosity levels to approx. 2.5%. Cold Spray trials on Titanium alloys were carried out at TWI, using the maximum range of available gas temperature and pressure of the Impact Innovations 5/11 system. Under selected conditions, the coating porosity was <2.0% and the coating adhesion was >70MPa with minimal surface preparation. The cohesive strength of the coatings increased to 819 MPa following heat treatment. The Cold Spray coating development activity and the extensive testing using selected powder feedstocks will help the decision making process towards achieving successful repair procedures of aircraft components. The evaluation of the repaired samples in terms of NDT, Structural and Microstructural examination, fatigue testing and surface protective treatments (anodizing) is expected in the next months.
For more information, please visit our website, image gallery and video gallery.

The i-VISION project is reaching the end of its lifetime and therefore is on the road to a successful project completion in its third and final year. In May 10^th and 11^th 2016, the last physical General Assembly Meeting was conducted, in Athens, Greece, where participants indicated that all project activities are well on track, advancing seamlessly towards their completion. More specifically, the main expected outcomes of the i-VISION developments are:

1. the finalization of a common platform for Virtual Reality & Cockpit related upcoming projects,
2. the reduction of authoring costs for the preparation of virtual cockpit experimentations, and
3. a set of public interfaces for further developments.

The final results are expected to meet the requirements of the project’s concept, allowing for the successful conclusion of the i-VISION activities. Hence, the major impact of the i-VISION knowledge-based technologies is to accelerate the design process through the systematic reuse of knowledge while allowing for faster and more flexible creation of aircraft cockpit prototypes. In addition, the analysis of human operations will result in highly competitive cockpits from the end-user’s perspective and will increase the utilization of future aircraft by allowing human pilots to operate in extreme weather conditions.
For more information please visit the i-VISION website.

CAPPADOCIA (Coordination Action Pro “Production, Avionics, Design” on Cost-efficiency in Aeronautics) is now successfully running its third year of operations. Aiming to review the state of the art of research and innovation and provide strategic recommendations to address existing gaps and bottlenecks, the CAPPADOCIA 2^nd Year recommendations report has been completed.
Cost efficiency aims at significantly reducing costs at all levels of the industrial supply chain so as to improve overall industry profitability. The associated approach implies that cost is reduced without significantly reducing the targeted product’s quality. To achieve this objective, an analysis has been made to compare both Cost (effort to provide the solution) and Value (a measure of the benefit). In line with this cost efficiency approach, the CAPPADOCIA yearly recommendations report looks at what is currently harming competitiveness of the European aviation sector. Its main objective is to provide improvement recommendations to the sector’s main stakeholders, including the European Commission and ACARE, aimed at increasing the European aviation industry competitiveness, as well as foreseeing its prospective impact towards how the whole supply chain operates. The full-length CAPPADOCIA second year Recommendations Report can be viewed and downloaded here.
Moreover, the 3^rd CAPPADOCIA newsletter is now available for viewing and downloading through the project public website.

SUNJET II, an initiative aiming at enhancing the relations between Europe and Japan in research and technology activities related to aviation, successfully organized the SUNJET II Forum on “Europe-Japan Cooperation in the domain of R&T for Aviation”. The Forum was held on the 2nd of June 2016 during the ILA-Berlin Airshow at Berlin ExpoCenter Airport.
The SUNJET II Forum was an excellent opportunity to gather diverse stakeholders from Europe and Japan and to pave the way for future EU-Japan cooperation, which could be co-funded by Horizon 2020 (EU's Framework Programme for Research & Innovation) and by METI (Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) and other relevant Japanese Ministries or organizations.
Major representatives of European and Japanese entities including but not limited to: Airbus Group, METI, European Commission, Clean Sky, Sumitomo Precision Products, Rolls-Royce, Fraunhofer IFAM, JAXA, Nikkiso Co., Ltd., Sinfonia Technology Co., Ltd., EASN Association, Esterline Belgium, attended the Forum and had the opportunity to meet and interact with each other.
For more information about the event and the public presentations please visit the SUNJET II website.

The UMRIDA project is entering the last 6 months, and recent progress was presented in two successful dedicated sessions, as a part of the SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ16), which was held in Lausanne, Switzerland begin of April 2016.
Great attention is now focused on the preparation of a UMRIDA book and Best Practice Guide on the industrial application of Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Robust Design Optimization (RDO) techniques. This UMRIDA book and Best Practice Guide are expected to contribute significantly to the dissemination and exploitation of UQ and RDO in industrial design practice.
Furthermore, the UMRIDA Final Symposium and Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and Robust Design Optimization (RDO) will take place at the premises of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in Brussels, Belgium on September 20-22, 2016. The following cases with prescribed uncertainties will be examined and discussed and are open to participants: NASA rotor 37, RAE 2822 airfoil, DLR F6 wing-body, Business Jet Configuration. For more information, please visit the symposium & workshop site here.

The FUCAM project (FUture Cabin for the Asian Market), which launched its activities in February 2016, performed its kick-off meeting on the AIRBUS GROUP premises in Munich, Germany, on February 25^th and 26^th 2016. FUCAM is a Horizon 2020 collaborative project aiming to develop a conceptual cabin interior design dedicated to the Asian markets in the year 2025 and onwards. Coordinated by Airbus Group Innovations, FUCAM brings together 8 research and industrial partners from Europe and Japan, with wide experience in their field, allowing for an unhindered course towards achieving the project’s goals.
After initiating its activities, FUCAM focused on the definition of various concept proposals and design drivers on cabin space architectures and advanced on-board systems for the Asian market. This phase started with the organization of the 1^st Ideation Workshop, conducted successfully from 1^st to 2^nd June 2016 in Espoo, Finland. In this transcontinental joint workshop, Japanese and European partners had the unique opportunity to establish long-term trust partnerships, to participate in fruitful discussions and to share their viewpoint in the frame of identifying new concept ideas that could lead to the implementation of a future aircraft cabin dedicated to the Asian market.
Please find more information at the FUCAM website.

HAIC, by having achieved most of the objectives planned for its third year of activities, is moving ahead to its final 8 months of activities. The highlight of this period includes the conduction of the HAIC A340 field campaign which took place in January 2016 at Darwin (Australia) and Saint Denis (France). The main objective of this flight test programme was to validate the detection and awareness technologies developed as part of the project. The aircraft operated in both oceanic and continental convection at three flight levels (-50°C, -30°C and -10°C by order of priority). During the campaign 34 encounters in continental convection and 46 in oceanic convection occurred. Also during this period project activities have contributed to demonstrate TRL5 maturity for a first generation of satellite-based products for aeronautic applications. In addition, detector & weather radar prototypes have been delivered to support the HAIC A340 field campaign, Ice Detection System and weather radar ice crystals awareness function standardisation activities are on-going as part of EUROCAE WG95. Finally, efforts are made to organize the HAIC Final Forum to be held at Toulouse, France between the 29th and 30th of September 2016 and prepare research actions beyond HAIC.
For more information about the latest project’s progress and achievements, please have a look at the 3^rd issue of the HAIC Newsletter.

TraMOOC, being in its 2^nd year of development, conducted on the 10th and 11th of May 2016 the M15 meeting in Dublin, Ireland where the progress performed during the first 15 months of the project was presented to the consortium. The aim of the M15 project meeting was to review the progress and the activities planned up to the Review Meeting in September 2016. The highlights of this period include:

• the development of the translation prototype version 1,
• the creation of the initial prototype of the automated translation functionality on iversity, connecting the iversity platform and its content with the TraMOOC translation engine, and
• the creation of the Machine Translation Version 1 (baseline phrase-based machine translation systems) which translates from English into German, Italian, European Portuguese and Greek

In a nutshell, important technical work has been performed during this period and most of this period’s objectives have been achieved. More information about the project's progress, latest results and performed dissemination activities is available on the project's progress timeline.

AMADE – a composite materials research group at University of Girona (Spain) – has a wide expertise on both the experimental characterization and the development of numerical methods for the simulation and design of composite materials. AMADE manages a Nadcap and ISO17025 accredited test lab that is qualified by Airbus for several advanced tests and regularly collaborates with leading companies of aerospace and automotive industries.
Find more information here.

Two Clean Sky 2 proposals, NOVAIR and MANTA, that were submitted by the faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, were successful in the second call for Core Partners for Horizon2020’s Clean Sky 2 programme. The projects received a total funding of 3.2 mE for the section Flight Performance and Propulsion, leading to a significant impulse for its scientific research programme on the development of future aircraft.
Project MANTA (MovAbles for Next generaTion Aircraft) will develop and demonstrate innovative multifunctional movables that increase airframe efficiency over the complete flight envelope of business jets and large passenger aircraft as a contribution to the societal challenge to reduce 3 to 5% CO₂.
Project NOVAIR will focus on the design of radical aircraft configurations specifically exploiting the potential benefits of Hybrid Electric Propulsion (HEP). The further development of future green and sustainable air transport requires novel and radical aircraft configurations. In particular, Hybrid Electric Propulsion (HEP) is expected to have the potential to create major breakthroughs towards more electric aircraft and thus to more sustainable air transport.
Find more information here.

A large scale testing facility has been installed in the premises of the Laboratory of Technology & Strength of Materials of the University of Patras. The facility is consisted of 4 hydraulic actuators with maximum load capacity of 250KN and displacement range ±125mm, able to apply static and fatigue loads in three axis. The working area of the facility is 4.2m x 3.5m x 3.0m, able to accommodate and test a wide range of structures.
The hydraulic power is supplied to the actuators through a power pack system with a rate of 110 l/min at 3000psi. The facility is also equipped with a multi-channel control and data acquisition unit.

Beginning of June the Maaximus (More Affordable Aircraft through eXtended, Integrated and Mature nUmerical Sizing) project completed the manufacturing of the full scale technology demonstrator, which is going to be tested in the next months. The shell includes various innovative composite technologies for large passenger aircraft fuselages and was developed and manufactured by partners Airbus Operations, DLR and Airbus Helicopters.
Delivered to Dresden to partner IMA, the demonstrator now will be prepared for the test procedure on a novel test rig. In parallel intensive simulation work will be done to validate those numerical models, which have been developed during the first years of the project, but also to validate the structural technologies and the test stand itself. Maaximus ends 31/09/2016.
Find more information here.

The University of Strasbourg is organising the 6th Symposium on Hybrid RANS-LES Methods in Strasbourg, France, from 26 to 28 September 2016. The 6th Symposium provides a unique open forum for researchers and industrial engineers to exchange knowledge, to discuss new solutions of flow problems, and to present recent achievements in development and applications of hybrid RANS-LES methods - including modelling of flow physics and related numerical issues.
The 6th Symposium encourages to present new emerging ideas that may inspire future developments and applications of hybrid RANS-LES methods for improved computational accuracy and efficiency in industrial needs.
Find more information here.

LEMCOTEC: The Intermediate Pressure Compressor rig for future ultra-high OPR aero-engines was presented at Inter¬na¬tional Air Show (ILA 2016) in Berlin.
Rolls-Royce has designed a 4-stage IPC that is representative of Large Turbofan engines. The design was based around the experience of the Trent engines. Latest CFD methods calibrated to those designs were applied to introduce innovative concepts such as advanced 3D blading for transonic and subsonic stages, an integrated compressor-duct design approach and a new flow path definition. The experimental investigations have been performed at ANECOM Aerotest in Wildau in one of the largest compressor test facilities in Europe.
GKN Aerospace Sweden and the University of Loughborough are developing together an advanced compressor inter-duct. An acrylic plastic model was shown. GKN and Loughborough, with input from Rolls-Royce, designed several duct and strut configurations. The testing of lifting inter-ducts was performed at the University of Loughborough. A new heat exchanger concept (University of Thessaloniki), air-cooled turbine nozzle guide vanes (University of Oxford), Inlet Guide Vanes (Technische Universität Braunschweig) and the ground-breaking OCORE combustion rig (DLR) were on display.
The Collaborative Project LEMCOTEC is financially supported by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme. The European research project LEMCOTEC is led by Rolls-Royce Deutschland. 36 partners from aero-engine industry, universities, research establishments and small to medium size enterprises are collaborating. LEMCOTEC is developing advanced aero-engine technologies to improve the thermal cycle efficiency. Key research areas are intermediate and high pressure compressors, lean combustion and injection systems, materials and hot structures, cooling technology and combustor-turbine interaction.
Find more information here.

Development of surface pre-treatments on Ti6Al4V components to improve multi-material joining
Surface preparation is, perhaps, the most important process step governing the quality of an adhesive bond. In order to ensure the mechanical anchorage and chemical bonding of a film adhesive to a given material, the surface of the last must be clean and with a controlled macro/micro roughness. These surface properties could be achieved by different pre-treatments like laser, sanding, grinding, and in the case of lightweight alloys also by means of anodizing and plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) processes.
Different investigations are currently under way in CIDETEC in order develop and apply surface pre-treatments like laser, grinding and PEO processes on titanium alloys with the aim of cleaning and creating a suitable roughness and surface structure to improve multimaterial joining.
For example, in the case of laser treatments, the influence of the laser parameters (beam power, scan speed, pulse frequency, focal distance, distance and overlapping between adjacent laser traces, etc) on the topographic characteristics of Ti6Al4V surfaces are been analyzed in order to find the most suitable process parameters to improve the adhesion to CFRP.

The DAEDALOS project aimed to develop methods and procedures to determine dynamical loads by considering the effects of dynamic buckling, material damping and mechanical hysteresis during aircraft service. Advanced analysis and design principles were assessed with the scope of partly removing the uncertainty and the conservatism of today’s design and certification procedures.
The project involved 13 Partners from 8 European countries: Politecnico di Milano, Alenia Aermacchi, Aernnova, Advanced Lightweight Engineering, University of Brno, DLR, FOI, Israel Aircraft Industries, LLV, University of Hannover, RWTH, SMR and Technion.
DAEDALOS Coordinator: Prof. Chiara Bisagni, chiara.bisagni[at]polimi.it.
Find more information here.

The third year confirmed good progress in all technology streams: Hybrid Laminar Flow Control on wing and fin; Active Flow Control on outer wing on wing/pylon; and on wing trailing edge; Vibrations mitigation/control in undercarriage area; Noise reduction on flap and undercarriage, but also a lot of challenges since we will have to secure the large scale testing activities such as the flight tests, wind tunnel tests and ground based demonstrators.
We organised our first workshop in September 2015 and participated in AERODAYS 2015 in October. We plan on participating to ILA, AIAA, ECCOMAS, ICAS and EASN workshop in the coming months.
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PASSME is a Horizon 2020 project focused on reducing airport travel time by 60 minutes and improving the passenger experience. Our researchers have developed a passenger-centric model which addresses the relationship between airport passengers, the airport environment, information technology and other airport stakeholders.
The project’s innovations include a personalised PASSME app, improved airport interiors, informed passenger flow management, better luggage management and a less stressful passenger experience. These are all captured in the PASSME model. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 636308.
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The EU technology programme ENOVAL (ENgine mOdule VALidators) has created a set of comprehensive Learning Modules. Ten modules covering different topics are available for download on the ENOVAL website. They have been designed as ready-to-teach material contributing to the transfer of knowledge between industry and academia, and facilitating the dissemination of ENOVAL technologies for Ultra-High Bypass Ratio aero engines.
All Learning Modules were realized jointly by industry and academic partners. They are equipped with valuable background information and come with a list of recommended complementary readings. They can thus be easily integrated into teaching activities at universities and other academic institutions targeting the education of future engineers in the aero-engine domain.

20 long haul demonstration flights on an A330-200 aircraft from KLM were successfully completed in May 2014, using the UCO-based biojet, allowing the collection of valuable in-flight data.
A series of Embraer E190 short-haul flights (Oslo-Amsterdam) have been performed, allowing further data acquisition, analysis and comparison about the performance of biojet use in different flight and aircraft types.
In January 2016, ITAKA project successfully contributed to the first commercial supply of sustainable biojet fuel through the existing hydrant system. This world’s first experience is being carried out in collaboration with Air BP and Avinor, together with KLM, SAS and the Lufthansa Group airlines (being also open to any airline departing from Oslo airport).
Find more information here.