PLENOPTIMUM

MANUFACTURING OPTIMIZATION OF A PLENUM WITH GFRP CYANATE ESTER-BASED PREPREG

 Coordinatore UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS 

 Organization address address: UNIVERSITY CAMPUS RIO PATRAS
city: RIO PATRAS
postcode: 26500

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Vassilis
Cognome: Kostopoulos
Email: send email
Telefono: +30 2610969441
Fax: 302611000000

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Greece [EL]
 Totale costo 299˙416 €
 EC contributo 224˙562 €
 Programma FP7-JTI
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Joint Technology Initiatives
 Code Call SP1-JTI-CS-2013-02
 Funding Scheme JTI-CS
 Anno di inizio 2014
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2014-03-01   -   2015-06-30

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS

 Organization address address: UNIVERSITY CAMPUS RIO PATRAS
city: RIO PATRAS
postcode: 26500

contact info
Titolo: Prof.
Nome: Vassilis
Cognome: Kostopoulos
Email: send email
Telefono: +30 2610969441
Fax: 302611000000

EL (RIO PATRAS) coordinator 116˙550.00
2    FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION

 Organization address address: PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE MIRAMON PASEO MIKELETEGI 2
city: DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN
postcode: 20009

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Maria Jesus
Cognome: Jurado Onate
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 946430850

ES (DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN) participant 108˙012.00

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first    materials    optimization    plenoptimum    ester    heterogeneities    autoclave    plenum    composite    trials    cyanate    manufacturing    influential    effect    curing    final   

 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Cyanate ester resins offer significant advantages as composite matrices because of their high thermal stability, their improved toughness, low outgassing, low moisture uptake and radiation resistance due to their low dielectric constant. Towards the direction of incorporating these materials in the aerospace industry, a new glass/cyanate ester material system was characterized for use in the plenum of the air cooling unit of aircrafts. However, the first trials with this new prepreg to manufacture real parts (plenum housing) in an autoclave, highlighted some heterogeneity issues in the reliability and reproducibility of the manufacturing process. PLENOPTIMUM project aims to address the reasons that lead to the aforementioned heterogeneities and through a novel Design of Experiments approach identify a number of possible influential factors that affect the manufacturing process (in autoclave and out-of-autoclave) and potentially cause deviations and heterogeneities. For the first time, factors additional to temperature profile and pressure shall be examined according to their effect on the final quality of the composite materials and the actual plenum. Process modeling as well as online curing monitoring technologies will assist the optimization task and the quest of the optimum curing cycle. Manufacturing trials for plenum manufacturing in an autoclave as well as out-of-autoclave process will take place in the final part of the project taking into account the results of a test campaign specially designed to highlight the effect each one of the identified influential factors has. Guidelines and recommendations to the topic manager and manufacturer that ensure and optimize the manufacturing process are the final outcome. Both participants that form PLENOPTIMUM consortium have a strong background and experience on processing/manufacturing optimization and have the proper infrastructure to meet the targets set.'

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