EASN Newsletter - January 2018

The EASN Association, the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS) and the University of Glasgow are inviting you to the 8^th EASN-CEAS International Workshop on “Manufacturing for Growth & Innovation”. In 2018, the annual gathering will be the first joint event of EASN and CEAS and it will be held at the Sir Charles Wilson Building and Gilmore Hill Center Rooms of the University of Glasgow from the 4^th until the 7^th of September 2018.

Over the years, the annual EASN Conferences have been established as major European Dissemination events. At the same time, CEAS high quality events have been recognized as a link between the academic community and industrial end-users, so as to directly focus at industrial participation. The 8^th EASN – CEAS International Workshop aims to build on the success of the series of EASN and CEAS events by becoming an even broader and more comprehensive gathering. The Conference will include a number of Plenary Talks by distinguished personalities of the European Aviation sector from the Academia, Industry, Research community, as well as policy and decision makers. It will also include Thematic Sessions on a series of disciplines of the A&AT Manufacturing domain, along with Technical Workshops where evolving ideas, technologies, products, services and processes will be discussed. Research projects are invited to exploit the opportunity and disseminate their results and achievements in dedicated Sessions.     

As always, the 8^th EASN Conference is designed to foster the cooperation and interaction between the participants on a multidisciplinary basis serving as a platform for sharing their research activities and exchanging novel ideas for future research with a relative pan-European and global audience. The event is structured in a way that enhances the interaction and presents an excellent opportunity for networking and creating new synergies for future collaborations on a bilateral basis or in the frame of multilateral projects.

For more information, please visit the official website of the EASN Conference series.

Prof. Andreas Strohmayer, Professor for Aircraft Design at University of Stuttgart is at the same time, Member of the Board of Directors of EASN as Industrial Advisory Officer. EASN has recently published a policy paper on its strategy for activities with the European industry. In this context in his interview, Dr. Andreas Strohmayer explains his role as Industrial Advisory Officer within the EASN Board of Directors and illustrates the motivation and the proposed actions for establishing a closer link between EASN, Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) active in the European aeronautics and Aerospace Sector.

Read the full interview on the EASN website respective page.

The 7th EASN International Conference, was successfully held from the 26^th until the 29^th of September, in Warsaw, Poland. The event included 11 Κey - Νote Lectures and more than 250 technical presentations distributed in approximately 50 sessions.  In this frame, more than 280 participants from 30 different countries had the chance to attend the presentations given by more than 220 speakers, representing running or recently completed research projects with new upstream ideas for future research. 
More than 250 abstracts were submitted, while more than 100 full papers have been included and published in the 7th EASN Conference's proceedings and a number of selected papers will be published in international journals following peer review. The international journals in which full papers will be published are the following: 

1.      Aircraft Engineering & Aerospace Technology Journal

2.      Frattura ed Integrita Strutturale

3.      International Journal of Structural Integrity

4.      Journal of Aerospace Technology

5.      Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems

During this four days gathering, distinguished Key-Note guests updated the delegates on the future Industrial trends and the European priorities with respect to the medium and long-term goals. Specifically: 

Mrs Clara de la Torre, Director for Transport, Director for Transport, DG Research & Innovation, European Commission

Dr. Marian Lubieniecki, Managing Director and Site Leader at GE Engineering Design Centre (Institute of Aviation)

Mr. Christophe Hermans, President of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS)

Mr. Bruno Sainjon, Chairman of Association of European Research Establishments in Aeronautics (EREA)

Mr. Alan Haigh, Head of Department - Horizon 2020 Energy and Transport, INEA Executive Agency

Dr. Bruno Stoufflet, Vice-President Scientific Strategic, R&D and Advanced Projects of Dassault Aviation

Dr. Fay Collier, Associate Director for Flight Strategy, Integrated Aviation Systems Program, NASA Langley Research Centre

Mr. Hannes Ross, Design Advisor and Consultant for the Swiss Project Solar Impulse

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mirko Hornung, Executive Director Research and Technology, Bauhaus Luftfahrt e.V.

Dr. Bruce Holmes, Vice President and Executive Director of the Skytelligence Group, SmartSky Networks 

Dr. Frank Anton, Executive Vice President, Siemens eAircraft.

The EASN Association, the Warsaw University of Technology (Faculty of Power & Aeronautical Engineering - Institute of Aeronautics & Applied Mechanics - Department of Aircraft Design) and the Conference Organisers would like to say a big thank you to the  Institute of Aviation (ILOT) for their strong support and great hospitality, the Key Note Speakers, the Session Chairs, the Authors and Presenters, the members of the Scientific and local Organizing Committee for their valuable effort, and everyone else who has contributed to make this Conference, the largest, and most comprehensive gathering of the Association yet. 

Registered EASN Members can view and download the Conference Proceedings here. The Key-Note presentations and other related material can be found here.

Having completed a first full year of operations, the research units involved in the ICARUS project are in the position of providing significant outcomes to foster progress in the future.

Classical thermodynamics, Nano-Calphad and multiscale modelling techniques are combined into a unique predictive tool that will enable the exploration and design of new binary and multinary nanostructured metal alloys. The final aim is to obtain metal alloys with enhanced mechanical properties, coarsening resistance and radiation damage tolerance. Within the past twelve months, ICARUS developed an initial version of a thermodynamic approach by integrating classical and statistical thermodynamics capable of predicting the relative stability of non-dilute metal alloys. This approach relates grain boundary energy to the thermodynamic quantities governing mixing in solid solutions. Enabling a comparative analysis of different binary alloys, ICARUS model provides improved guidelines for the design of nc binary metal alloys while it proves the existence of thermodynamically stable nc binary metal alloys for a relatively broad spectrum of elemental combinations.

On the 26th and 27th of October 2017 the ICARUS Consortium conducted the M12 Progress and Action Check Meetings respectively in Brussels, Belgium. In the latter, the important work performed during this period was presented to the EC authorities. For further information, please visit the ICARUS official website.

Having completed the first half of its project duration, EFFICOMP successfully conducted its Intermidate Review Meeting, in Brussels, Belgium, the 16^th of November 2017. The intermediate reporting period has been officially approved and EFFICOMP's overall activities are running as initially foreseen in the project roadmap. In the second phase of the project, EFFICOMP consortium intends to contribute to an increased productivity rate through the investigation of on new, low-curing time materials and the development of new heating solutions, eliminating autoclaves and mould thermal intertia.

Having completed a second full year of operations the FUCAM project progresses its pace at research and innovation entering now in the most impactful phases of its lifetime. The previous year, has successfully organized its 4th European Concept Detailing Workshop, hosted by Airbus AGI in Hamburg, Germany from 27th to 28th November 2017. The objective of this workshop was to review the progress performed so far and the activities planned up with main aim to finalise (most of) the concepts, also in light of technology solutions, in order to prepare the building of the FUCAM mock ups.

The workshop was focused on brainstorming and finalizing the concepts on the detailed planning and implementation of the mock ups for the following parts of an aircraft cabin: Business Class Seat, Economy seat, Low Deck container and Staircase. More specifically, FUCAM project is exploring the usage of the lower deck as a way to offer a differentiated experience on a “Pay per use” basis. In that frame, research is divided in several scenarios which include the Class seat differentiation into Business and Super Economy, as well as the Low Deck Area analysis which is referred to the following concepts:

1st Low Deck Scenario: The 1st scenario is focused on providing a low cost dining solution to the passenger, as attractive enough so as to enhance passengers’ interest to buy access to the experience provided on the lower deck.

2nd Low Deck Scenario: This aspect, explores a variety of experiences (i.e. Child play area, Coffee area, Yoga area, beauty area, etc.) in the lower deck, possibly partnered up with a powerful to the Asian Market brand, with an “on demand” focus.

Through this process, FUCAM will contribute to the advancement of the current state of the art in cabin architecture, design and systems development so as to eventually develop the best cabin product, meeting the needs of the Asian market, and become the basis for further future work in this orientation.