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Sustainability / Environment SpaCe & aeroSpaCe CompoSiTeS HaS impreSSive CUSTomer BaSe Continued from page 11 As an illustration she mentions the Boeing 787, where dozens of engineers are trying to work out how to save eight grams on a single part. The only solution for weight saving is composites. In order to be able to produce more composites and make them more 12 txtures | number 4 | winter competitive, automation is vital: it can speed up the production cycle, guarantee the reproducibility and quality of parts and reduce costs. JEC Composites supports the industry by providing an extensive information and training programme in automation. TenCate supplies composite materials for the moving horizontal and vertical parts of the tail of the gulfstream G650 Europe, where 83% of the production processes are currently automated, acts as a driver for Asia (68%) for example. ‘The entire composites industry must, however, move forward, as a sign that it is committed to the environment.’
Lightweight composites, which meet the requirements of the aircraft manufacturers in terms of strength and stiffness, can also be used to make cars and ships lighter. To achieve this, however, faster, automated production techniques must become available. Biding one’s time Participation in the aviation market is a question of biding one’s time. Even now designers are already getting down to work on planes that will not take to the air before 2025. The requirements made by the aviation industry change rapidly and the use of composites in this sector is increasing markedly. Composite is both stronger and lighter than aluminium and other metals. Each successive generation of aircraft as a rule contains yet more composite material, as it is a matter of being able to carry more passengers over greater distances, with reduced fuel consumption and lower production and maintenance costs. New commercial aircraft that will be delivered in 2010 and the following years will have fuselages and wings in which yet more aluminium has been replaced by (carbon fibre) composites. The same also applies to the structural parts. In 2014, 11% more composites will be used in aircraft than in 2009. The Airbus A320 (1986) consists of 20% composite material, the A380 (2005), 35%. The new Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 XWB will consist of approximately 50% composites and only 20% aluminium. The use of composites makes aircraft lighter and increases their lifespan. As this will also enable the air pressure and atmospheric humidity to be increased, passenger comfort too will be enhanced. With aluminium the atmospheric humidity is kept artificially low, as corrosion would otherwise occur (for example in the rivet joints). This keeps the air in the aircraft dry. At an altitude of ten kilometres the plane must be kept pressurized; in an average lifespan a plane is ‘pumped up’ approximately 150,000 times. Composites thus have an advantage because, unlike aluminium, absolutely no material fatigue will occur. opting for TenCate Customers have their own reasons for opting for composite materials from TenCate: reliability and continuity, for example. TenCate offers excellent technical service, very short lead times and a wide selection of specialty products for key segments like radomes and satellites. Manufacturers of satellite systems value the benefits of the very high modulus fibres and resin systems from TenCate, which are extremely dimensionally stable. Radome manufacturers want composites that are dielectrically very pure: glass and quartz fabrics with no carbon fibre contamination. In the Morgan Hill facility the group has carbon-free areas. TenCate has wide-ranging technology in resins, both thermoset and thermoplastics, and can also manufacture parts itself. Space & Aerospace Composites is also a good technical partner, being able to develop and qualify new materials for specific end-use applications. In both Nijverdal amd Morgan Hill, TenCate possesses some of the very latest production equipment in both thermoset and thermoplastic prepregs and unitape. 13
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