FEA-SMC: Enabling short fibre composites in high-performance aerospace applications through robust simulation technology

FEA-SMC：通过强大的仿真技术在高性能航空航天应用中实现短纤维复合材料

• 批准号: 10037901
• 金额: $ 28.92万
• 依托单位: CREATIVE COMPOSITES LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: BEIS-Funded Programmes
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10037901
• 关键词: FEA; SMC; Enabling; short; fibre

Creative Composites, Engenuity Ltd, WMG and Simutence will be working together with Spirit Aerosystems to develop a new software solution to predict the structural performance of SMC composite materials and enable their use in aerospace applications. SMC is a discontinuous fibre, moulded composite commonly used for performance automotive applications. Its carbon fibre reinforced variants (known as C-SMC) can have higher specific strength and stiffness than aluminium, with lower material cost and cycle time than continuous CFRP.The consortium will develop a software tool that can accurately predict the variable behaviour of these materials taking into account the effect of flow during moulding. Bridging a gap in predictive analysis and opening up the aerospace industry to more applications of this low-cost, light weighting technology. The project will include the design optimisation and manufacture of a structural aircraft component to validate this new software tool, and demonstrate how it can enable C-SMC to compete with conventional aerospace materials.

Creative复合材料公司、Engenuity有限公司、WMG公司和Simutence公司将与Spirit航空系统公司合作开发一种新的软件解决方案，以预测SMC复合材料的结构性能，并使其在航空航天应用中得到应用。SMC是一种不连续纤维模压复合材料，通常用于高性能汽车应用。它的碳纤维增强变体（称为C-SMC）可以比铝具有更高的比强度和刚度，比连续CFRP具有更低的材料成本和周期时间。该联盟将开发一种软件工具，可以准确地预测这些材料的可变行为，同时考虑到成型过程中流动的影响。填补了预测分析的空白，并为航空航天业打开了这种低成本、轻量化技术的更多应用。该项目将包括飞机结构部件的设计优化和制造，以验证这种新的软件工具，并演示它如何使C-SMC与传统航空航天材料竞争。