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Out of the 12 Level 1 project
proposals endorsed by EASN for the 5th FP7 call, 11 were successful in
the evaluation process and 3 (and possibly 4, depending on the final
number of projects to be funded) have obtained EC funding.
More information is available at http://www.easn.net/research-projects/
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Clean Sky is the most ambitious
aeronautical research programme ever launched
in Europe. Its mission is to develop breakthrough technologies to
significantly increase the environmental performances of airplanes and
air transport, resulting in less noisy and more fuel efficient aircraft,
hence bringing a key contribution in achieving the Single European Sky
environmental objectives.
Mr. Giuseppe Pagnano, Coordinating
Project Officer of JTI "Clean Sky" offered an interview about
the project and the role and involvement of the European Academic
Community. Read the interview
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Following the successful recipe of
the first EASN workshop, where a large number of specialists from the
industry, Research establishments and the Academia attended and presented
the latest achievements in the area, EASN is organising
the second of a series of specialised
workshops, this time in the fields of Flight Physics and propulsion. The
3-day workshop will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from 31st of
October until 2nd of November 2012. More information is available on the EASN website
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In the frame of the open
consultation of the Draft SRIA, the ACARE WG5 organises
a workshop on Education and Workforce on Thursday, 7th June 2012 at the
EC premises. EASN will be presenting the viewpoint of the Universities by
a presentation on “Increasing adaptability while ensuring high quality of
the European Aeronautical Engineering education”.
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EASN has launched the “Expression of Interest”
campaign to collect innovative project ideas for endorsement in the frame
of the 6th FP7 call. For more information visit the EASN website
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News from the Aeronautical community
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The Smart Intelligent Aircraft
Structures project has launched its official website www.saristu.eu, where you can be informed about the project and follow its
progress. The website gives an overview of the project objectives and,
through regular updates of the current status, progress and key milestone
results.
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Seven months after the Kick-off meeting,
SARISTU is nearly at the end of its specification phase. With the conduct
of 11 bi-annual reviews in January and February 2012, the review process
orientated on Technology Performance, Value & Risk, Aircraft
Operations, Engineering and Project Performance, indicated an overall
satisfactory status when compared to the initial planning.
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COOPERATEUS has consolidated his activities
for phase 2 during a Consortium meeting held on February the 14th in
Paris. Workshops in Spring and event during the Farnborough Airshow will
give full visibility to the identified cooperation candidates. A final
forum in Brussels on October the 4th will present the conclusive status.
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EASN endorsed projects: Latest
achievements
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The INMA project (www.inmaproject.eu) aims to develop an
innovative manufacturing technology to fabricate complex Ti sheet
components by using incremental sheet forming, KB modeling and lean
heating. The consortium includes two aeronautic end-users and one
machine-tool builder.
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During the last period two hot forming
devices (one for local heating, one for global heating) have been set up.
First results on the process parameters that affect to the maximum wall
angle have been obtained for Ti 6-4. FEA has demonstrated its ability to
predict the strains of a realistic cold formed component. Regarding KB
activities, the model implemented for spring back prediction will be used
in the upcoming weeks to correct the tool path of a basic shape.
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BEASY introduced their Corrosion
Manager simulation product, enabling identification of the extent of
aircraft/vehicle structures (metals, CFRP) at risk of galvanic corrosion
occurring, caused by exposure of the structure to electrolyte films (e.g.
from condensation; de-icing fluids; pooling etc.). For further
information, please contact info@beasy.com
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1st IAA Conference on Dynamics and Control of
Space Systems - DyCoSS’2012 organized by the International Academy of
Astronautics and the American Astronautical Society is held in Porto,
Portugal on March 19-21, 2012. The local support is provided by CAST-UBI and Porto University. For
more information visit: http://www.astrodynamics.org.pt
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The 7th International Workshop and Advanced
School “Spaceflight Dynamics and Control” organized by CAST-UBI and Porto University takes
place on March 22-23, 2012 at the Engineering School of the Porto
University (Porto, Portugal) as a Satellite Event of DyCoSS’2012. More
information is available at http://www.aerospace.ubi.pt/workshop2012/
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GRAIN Workshop on Environmentally Friendly
Advanced Modelling, Experimentation, Large Scale Simulation and Smart
Structures/ Materials for Greener Design in Aeronautic.
For more information visit: www.cimne.com/grain
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Methods for determining material strength
properties and their changes after inducing plastic or elastic residual
stresses by micro-blasting have been developed, based on
nanoindentations, by the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Manufacturing
Engineering of AUTH and Fraunhofer PCCM.
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The 25th edition of the international ISMA Noise and Vibration Engineering
Conference - ISMA2012 will be held in Leuven (BEL) from 17 until 19 Sept.
It will be organised in conjunction with the 4th edition of the
international Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics - USD2012.
More information is available at http://www.isma-isaac.be
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Conceptual design methodologies and an
optimization framework for morphing aircraft applications have been
developed at the Aerospace Structures Chair of the Delft University of
Technology. These methodologies
have led to the design and manufacturing of morphing wings, leading edges
and winglets.
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Technology
to design advanced composite structures with steered fibre paths have
been developed at the Aerospace Structures Chair of the Delft University
of Technology. The technology has been applied to design of laminates for
active and passive load alleviation of wind turbine blades and commercial
airliners wings, which have been built and tested.
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Improved
architectures for automated fiber/tow placement of composite laminates
with increased damage tolerance are under development at the Aerospace
Structures Chair of the Delft University of Technology. Significant increases in compression
after impact have been documented without any decrease of in-plane
strength or stiffness properties.
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An approach
to predict cycles to failure in composite structures under constant
amplitude and spectrum loading is under development at the Aerospace
Structures Chair of the Delft University of Technology. It requires no curve fitting or tests
to determine model parameters and tries to account for the creation and
interaction of various types of damage.
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Studying the
dynamic response of primary aircraft structures subjected to blast
loading was the aim of the “VULCAN” EU
funded project which has been recently completed by the Composite Systems Innovation Centre. Numerical simulations using the
Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian multi-material formulation (ALE) in the
explicit finite element solver LS-DYNA were validated by experiments.
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