Optimisation of self-healing repair systems in aerospace composite structures

为民用和军用飞机设计和制造复合材料结构是波音澳大利亚航空结构公司和其他澳大利亚航空航天公司数十亿美元的出口业务。为了保持全球竞争力，澳大利亚工业必须为下一代复合材料航空结构开发新的专业技术，使其更轻、更便宜、更耐损伤、更容易修复。复合材料的自主自修复是一种创新的修复技术，在航空结构损伤修复中有着广阔的应用前景。该项目将开发分析工具和数据，使澳大利亚航空航天工业能够利用飞机复合材料结构的自修复修复系统提供的经济效益。

Design and manufacture of composite structures for civilian and military aircraft is a multi-billion dollar export business for Boeing Aerostructures Australia and other Australian aerospace companies. To remain globally competitive, Australian industry must develop new expertise for next-generation composite aerostructures that are lighter, cheaper, more damage tolerant and easily repaired. Autonomic self-healing of composites is an innovative repair technology with many future potential applications for damaged aerostructures. This project will develop analytical tools and data to enable the Australian aerospace industry to take advantage of the economic benefits offered by self-healing repair systems in aircraft composite structures.