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Today, many small aerodromes have a hard time surviving economically, and amongst the largest cost is air traffic control. Airlines are cutting costs where they can, and many times this affects the aerodromes as well, e.g. when airlines decide to park remotely instead of at the gate. [...]

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Fibre-reinforced polymer composite materials are leading candidates as component materials to improve the efficiency and sustainability of many transport modes and specially in new vehicles based on electric mobility where weight is also an important requirement. The advantages [...]

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The deployment of composites for lightweight solutions in the automotive market is still emerging due to the production cost of these components and the limited production capacity of current manufacturing technologies.

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Resin Transfer Moulding Technology (RTM) is gaining attention on developing composite structural components for aeronautical industry, due to its high-cadence production, and as a consequence, a significant manufacturing [...]

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Muchas industrias, como la del automovil están haciendo un gran esfuerzo para reducir costes y aumentar la productividad de los procesos de fabricación de composites. Aunque todas estas tecnologías aún están emergiendo, parece que los procesos [...]

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Nowadays carbon fibre reinforced epoxy laminates represent the standard material in the designing and manufacturing of aeronautical composite structures. However, advantages related to metals [...]

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The objective of the AIRPOXY project is to reduce production and maintenance, repair & operating (MRO) costs of composite parts in aeronautics, by introducing a new family of enhanced thermoset composites that [...]

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The objective of this work is the control of a Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM) mold trying to obtain a temperature in the whole cavity as much homogeneous as possible. This is a complex process, mainly because of two factors: temperature distribution in a complex geometry and variability [...]

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In the present work the feasability of 3D printintg, more specifically the FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) technology, to manufacture moulds of RTM in the phase of prototyping has been demonstrated. The upper part of the mould for a side-intrusion bar of a front door of a car has [...]

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Landing gear doors / traps are usually composed of sandwich structures manufactured by hand lay up and cured in autoclave. In the present development, this type of construction and its associated manufacturing process have been replaced by a monolithic design manufactured by liquid [...]