Abstract
Fiber reinforced polymers play a crucial role as enablers of lightweight and high performing structures to increase efficiency in aviation. However, the ever-increasing awareness for the environmental impacts has led to a growing interest in bio-based and recycled ‘eco-composites’ as substitutes for the conventional synthetic constituents. Recently, the international collaboration of Chinese and European partners in the ECO-COMPASS project provided an assessment of different eco-materials and technologies for their potential application in aircraft interior and secondary composite structures. This project summary reports the main findings of the ECO-COMPASS project and gives an outlook to the next steps necessary for introducing eco-composites as an alternative solution to fulfill the CLEAN SKY target.
Highlights
The consortium was comprised of European and Chinese members of research centers, academia and aerospace industry, who cooperate in the development, characterization and modelling of eco-composites for the application in secondary structures and interior of civil airplanes
The purpose of this project report is to provide an overview of the advantages and challenges of utilizing the so-called eco-composites made of bio-based and/or recycled constituents with the aim of substituting synthetic state-of-the-art materials used in aviation nowadays [1]
Composites made of carbon fibers and petrol-based matrix systems play a crucial role as enablers of lightweight and high performing structures to increase the efficiency of aviation
Summary
The consortium was comprised of European and Chinese members of research centers, academia and aerospace industry, who cooperate in the development, characterization and modelling of eco-composites for the application in secondary structures and interior of civil airplanes. The purpose of this project report is to provide an overview of the advantages and challenges of utilizing the so-called eco-composites made of bio-based and/or recycled constituents with the aim of substituting synthetic state-of-the-art materials used in aviation nowadays [1]. This shows that classic bio-based materials can be considered as “eco-composite”, but this term may be used for conventional materials, as long as their multifunctional performance during the use-phase is improved
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