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Dr. Tomás Flanagan

June 2015EireComposites TeoAn Choill RuaIndreabhanCo GalwayIreland

www.eirecomposites.comPhone +353 91 505430Fax +353 91 505432

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Presentation Overview

• ÉireComposites• Aerospace• Research• Testing• Renewable Energy

• MarinComp

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Company Overview

• Supplier to 3 aircraft programmes – Bombardier Global, V2500

engine, A400M

• Supplier to 3 Wind Energy Companies

• Composites testing (CTL)

• Patents granted & pending

• Started in 1997 to exploit opportunities for composites technology

• Academic origins but evolved to meet industrial opportunities

• 72 staff, including over 20 engineers

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

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Company Facilities

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

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Bombardier Global Jet

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

• 78 Parts eg skins, spars, ribs • Varying sizes up to 6.0m• Monolithic & Sandwich

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Bombardier V2500 Engine Nacelle

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

IAE V2500 Engine

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Airbus A400M

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

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Selected Current R & D

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

• Future Launchers Preparatory Programme 2.1 – Composite Cryogenic Upper Stage Tank (with ESA)

• Future Launchers Preparatory Programme 2.2 – Composite InterStage Structure (with ESA)

• Automated Tape-Placement of Thermoplastic Composites – Collaboration with Astrium ST & EADS CASA, GSTP)

• Development of Thermal Welding of TPC Aircraft Structures

– Collaboration with Bombardier Aerospace (Northern Ireland)

• EU Framework 7 YBRIDIO Programme– Joining of Dissimilar Materials

• Design and development of TPC Helicopter Structures– Collaboration with Eurocopter Deutschland (Germany)

– Clean Sky Helicopter Door

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Company Testing Facilities

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

• 400kN static test machine

• 250kN static test machine

• 10kN static test machine

• 4 x 100kN fatigue test machines

• 1 x 250kN fatigue test machines

• Fully-equipped workshop for specimen preparation

• DMTA and fibre volume fraction facilities

• Microscopy and void analysis

All static test machines with the exception of the 1MN machine are fitted with environmental chambers & can operate between -75oC to +200oC

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Renewables: Wind Turbine Blades

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

• EireComposites makes wind turbine blade sizes from 1.5m to 13m

• Both thermosetting and thermoplastic blades

• Other companies make blades using RTM or similar

• EireComposites blades made using powder epoxy and heated tooling

• This improves blade quality

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Wind blades

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

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Selected Customers – Manufacturing

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Selected Customers – Testing

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

Aerospace

Wind Power

Other

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MarinComp

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MarinComp

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

Moulds

• Smart Efficient Affordable Marine Energy Technology

Exploitation using Composites

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MarinComp

Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities

Moulds

• Tidal blades and wind turbine spars

• Sensors on\in blades

• EireComposites is involved in the Wave20 H2020 project aimed

at creating potable water from wave energy

• SEAMETEC

• Perspective from the company’s point of view

• Challenges

• Benefits

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Thanks!

Questions?