Decarbonising Aerospace: Advancing Sustainability with Composite Materials
16 December 2024 - 16 December 2024
Decarbonising Aerospace is a focused event exploring innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions in the aerospace sector through advanced composite materials.
Our Technical Fellow, Samuel Furtado will present details of the work the University of Sheffield AMRC Composite Centre developed on the use of Tailored Fibre Placement (TFP) for the design and manufacturing optimisation of electrical rotors for aerospace applications. The work demonstrates the uniqueness of TFP, where its flexibility does not only allow higher performance but also a more efficient and sustainable manufacturing process.
The work is part of the EU Horizon 2020 funded project Rotator (CS2 GA886986) aiming to develop an innovative advanced electro-mechanical magnetic pitch control mechanism (PCM) for open-rotor architectures. A lightweight fault tolerant full-size PCM utilizing an ultra-high torque density magnetically geared motor was designed, built, and tested.
The development of this innovative lightweighting technology to form structural parts of the motor and actuator system will deliver a step-change in motor/actuator weight-saving. Also, during the project, a multi-physical digital twin was developed, which is able to predict failure rates of the various components.
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