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Today, mainly man-made materials, such as carbon and glass fibers, are used to produce composite parts in aviation. Renewable materials, such as natural fibers or bio-sourced resin systems, have not yet found their way into aviation. The project ECO-COMPASS 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, bio-based epoxy resins to substitute bisphenol-A 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 eco-composites aims for an optimized use of materials while a Life Cycle Assessment aims to prove the ecological advantages compared to synthetic state-of-the-art materials. This Special Issue provides selected papers from the project consortium partners.
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Keywords
- aviation sector
- balsa
- bio-based epoxy
- bio-composites
- bio-sourced epoxy
- carbon nanotubes
- composite
- crack sensing
- eco-composite
- electrical conductivity
- electrical properties
- engineering applications
- Environmental Impacts
- fabric
- flax
- flax fibre
- fracture toughness
- function integrated interleave
- functional composites
- glass fibre
- green composite
- hybrid
- hybrid composite
- interface
- itaconic acid
- Life Cycle Assessment
- microstructures
- Multi-scale modeling
- n/a
- natural fibre
- nonwoven
- Paper
- physical properties
- plant fiber
- poly-lactic acid
- polymer nanocomposites
- ramie fiber
- recycled carbon fibre
- rosin acid
- sandwich structures
- sound absorption
- thermosetting resin
- wet-laying