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Composites – Applications (1/3)
Civil engineering structures Automotive sector
Aeronautics and space Sports and recreation
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Railway transport
Mechanical constructions
Maritime constructions
Possible motivations for choosing a specific material
• Lower cost (lower material cost, less joints and bondings, lower maintenance costs, less consumption,…)p )
• Increased performance (faster moving machines, better performances in sports, improved positioning of robots,...)
• New possibilities (colouring, higher surface
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p g gquality,...)
• Personal considerations,...
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Examples of applications
• Examples of composites applications are grouped in the sectors:the sectors:– aeronautics– aerospace– automobile & transport– sports sector– maritime sector– civil engineering and architecture
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civil engineering and architecture– others
Aeronautic applications
• examples:int i s ( ss) d s n in n ll s i b k s fl ps – interiors, (access) doors, engine nacelles, air brakes, flaps and rudders, flooring, radar domes, helicopter blades,...
– … up to "all composite" aircraft
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Share of composites in civil aircraft1980 A 300/310 Share of composites: 8 %
2000 A 340 500/600 Share of composites: 15 %
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2004 A 380 Share of composites: 20 %
Use of composites on the Airbus A319/A320
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Composite parts in Airbus
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Weight percentage of composites in commercial aircrafts
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Sandwich floor panels
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Interiors
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Fibre reinforced thermoplastics for furniture (TenCate advanced composites, Nl)
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Fibre reinforced thermoplastics for furniture (TenCate advanced composites, Nl)
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First welded composite component (TenCateadvanced composites Nl)
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Use of thermoplastic composites on the A340
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Use of composites on the Airbus A380(B. Räckers, Airbus M&P, ECCM10, Brugge 2002)
Floor Beamsfor upper Deck
Vertical Tail Plane
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Outer Flaps
J-noseSektion 19
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Horizontal Tail Plane
Center Wing BoxRear Pressure Bulkhead (FST)
A380 Center wing box(B. Räckers, Airbus M&P, ECCM10, Brugge 2002)
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Struts
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“Struts” within fuel tanks and other compartments
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Use of “GLARE” on the Airbus A380
S2 Glass fibres with FM94 epoxy adhesive (0 125mm
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Features: excellent impact, corrosion, lightning and fire resistance
Aluminium 2024-T3
(0.2-0.5mm)
epoxy adhesive (0.125mm per prepreg layer)
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Use of “GLARE” for bomb-proof containers
Bomb-proof “glare” containers
Lockerbie (GB),21 december 1988
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Courtesy of: Aviation Equipment
Aluminium 2024-T3
(0.2-0.5mm)
S2 Glass fibres with FM94 epoxy adhesive (0.125mm
per prepreg layer)
Impact protection of fuel tanks by use of composite Kevlar/rubber liners
Gonese (FR),25 juli 2000
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Geodeticcally wound structure on Beech Starship (ca. 1985)
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“All composite” Dornier Seastar
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Composites for ULM’s
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Composites on US Air Force C-17
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Aircraft with “forward swept” wings
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Fabrication of wings (Dassault)
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Stealth aircraft
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Composite body of (military) helicopter
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Helicopter cockpit
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Helicopter blades, propellers
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Flexible rotor shaft on helicopter
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Impact absorbing elements on helicopters
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Vertical impact test on Lynx helicopter
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Carbon/carbon composites for disk brakes
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Flight simulator
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Aerospace applications
• examples:C hi ld f ft d b di f k t f l t k– Cover shields of spacecraft and bodies of rockets, fuel tanks, exhausts of rocket and missile engines, ultra light lattice gurders for solar panels, chassis of satellites,...
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Ultra light lattice gurder
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Antennas
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C/Al- antenna for Hubble telescope
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Ariane 4 rocket lauching two satellites
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Solid fuel engines
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Tanks for solid fuel engines
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Carbon/carbon exhausts on solid fuel engines
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