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Collaborative Research Success Stories

COCOMAT - New design tools and guidelines for aircraft structures

Problem:

There is a large unemployed structural reserve capacity between the ultimate load and collapse. While plasticity is allowed in the design of metallic aircraft structures, it is not allowed in the design composite aircraft structures. To do so requires an accurate and reliable simulation of collapse.

 

MOJO-modular-jointModular Joints for Composite Aircraft Components (MOJO)

Problem:

Structural bonding can offer considerable cost savings over riveting as an assembly technique, but is not a widely accepted alternative.