Self-Tuning Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Adaptive Nanocomposite (STRAINcomp)

自调谐纤维增强聚合物自适应纳米复合材料(STRAINcomp)将提供一种最先进、快速、可逆和工艺高效的材料和技术，以应对不同的操作负荷，以创新的科学方式应对速率依赖挑战，并采用新型集成材料开发。它提出了朝着发展配备自我调节微观机制的智能关键结构的巨大飞跃迈出的一小步。STRAINcomp主要与EPSRC的工程和制造未来主题保持一致，在材料工程-复合材料和制造技术领域，这些领域已被EPSRC确定为需要维护的领域，以及包括工程科学、功能材料和聚合物科学的优先领域。它本质上是多学科的，直接针对英国和全球复合材料行业的自调整高性能复合材料的新颖、创新和颠覆性技术。这将带来一种新的材料发展，使英国处于全球开创性创新和市场的领先地位。英国行业包括航空航天(例如机身和机翼结构)、可再生能源(例如风能和潮汐涡轮机叶片和整流罩)、汽车(例如复合材料面板、底盘、保险杠)、土木工程(例如桥梁、灯柱、道路家具)、铁路(例如组合车厢)、海洋(例如船体和桅杆)和高端运动器材市场，迫切需要加强解决方案。在英国，有许多成熟的聚合物复合材料企业和快速增长的行业(例如，复合材料增强英国、庞巴迪、剑桥纳米系统、赫克塞尔、门罗科技等)。这些公司将直接受益于该项目的成果。

Self-Tuning Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Adaptive Nanocomposite (STRAINcomp) will provide a state-of-the-art, swift, reversible and process-efficient material and technology in response to varying operating loads, an innovative scientific answer to the rate dependence challenge with a novel integrated material development. It proposes one small step towards a giant leap for development of smart critical structures equipped with self-regulate micro-mechanisms. STRAINcomp is mainly aligned with the EPSRC's Engineering and Manufacturing the Future themes, in the areas of Materials engineering - composites and Manufacturing technologies which have been identified as areas to maintain by the EPSRC as well as including priority areas of Engineering Sciences, Functional Materials and Polymer Science. It is inherently multidisciplinary, and directly targets novel, innovative and disruptive technology of self-tuning high performance composite material for UK and global composites sectors. This will bring a novel material development that will put the UK position ahead of the global pioneering innovations and market.The UK sectors including aerospace (e.g. fuselage and wing structures), renewable energy (e.g. wind and tidal turbine blades and cowlings), automotive (e.g. composite panels, chassis, bumpers), civil (e.g. bridge beams, lamp-posts, road furniture), rail (e.g. composite carriages), marine (e.g. boat hulls and masts) and high-end sports equipment markets urgently require toughening solutions. There are many established polymer composites businesses and fast growing sectors in UK (e.g. Composite Reinforcements UK, Bombardier, Cambridge Nanosystems, Hexcel, Munro Technology etc.). These companies will directly benefit from the outputs of this project.