ECOCOMPASS

ISBN: 9783038976905 Géneros: Sinópsis: Today mainly manmade materials such as carbon and glass fibers are used to produce composite parts in aviation Renewable materials such as natural fibers or biosourced resin systems have not yet found their way into aviation The project ECOCOMPASS aims to evaluate the potential applications of ecologically improved composite materials in the aviation sector in an international collaboration of Chinese and European partners Natural fibers such as flax and ramie will be used for different types of reinforcements and sandwich cores Furthermore biobased epoxy resins to substitute bisphenolA based epoxy resins in secondary structures are under investigation Adapted material protection technologies to reduce environmental influence and to improve fire resistance are needed to fulfil the demanding safety requirements in aviation Modelling and simulation of chosen ecocomposites aims for an optimized use of materials while a Life Cycle Assessment aims to prove the ecological advantages compared to synthetic stateoftheart materials This Special Issue provides selected papers from the project consortium partners