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Composites – Applications (1/3)

Civil engineering structures Automotive sector

Aeronautics and space Sports and recreation

CompositesIves De Baere and Joris Degrieck – 2013-2014

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


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


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 %


2004 A 380 Share of composites: 20 %

Use of composites on the Airbus A319/A320


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Composite parts in Airbus


Weight percentage of composites in commercial aircrafts


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Sandwich floor panels


Interiors


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Fibre reinforced thermoplastics for furniture (TenCate advanced composites, Nl)


Fibre reinforced thermoplastics for furniture (TenCate advanced composites, Nl)


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First welded composite component (TenCateadvanced composites Nl)


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


Horizontal Tail Plane

Center Wing BoxRear Pressure Bulkhead (FST)

A380 Center wing box(B. Räckers, Airbus M&P, ECCM10, Brugge 2002)


Struts

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“Struts” within fuel tanks and other compartments


Use of “GLARE” on the Airbus A380

S2 Glass fibres with FM94 epoxy adhesive (0 125mm


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


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)


“All composite” Dornier Seastar


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Composites for ULM’s


Composites on US Air Force C-17


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Aircraft with “forward swept” wings


Fabrication of wings (Dassault)


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Stealth aircraft


Composite body of (military) helicopter


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Helicopter cockpit


Helicopter blades, propellers


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Flexible rotor shaft on helicopter


Impact absorbing elements on helicopters


Vertical impact test on Lynx helicopter

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Carbon/carbon composites for disk brakes


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,...


Ultra light lattice gurder


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Antennas


C/Al- antenna for Hubble telescope


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Ariane 4 rocket lauching two satellites


Solid fuel engines


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Tanks for solid fuel engines


Carbon/carbon exhausts on solid fuel engines


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Fuel tanks for Space Shuttles (Hercules)


Composites for heat shielding on Space Shuttles


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