Next Generation Aircraft Digitally Enhanced Hybrid Material Joint Assembly

传统的飞机制造既昂贵又缓慢。通常，新的制造技术旨在降低生产成本和时间，提高产品质量，并实现自动化。然而，在这些工艺能够满足工程要求并在工业规模上部署之前，仍然需要解决技术挑战。本博士的主要目的是建立一种特定的新型制造技术如何实施，以实现最大的积极影响成本，质量和时间。这包括：识别和挑战现有飞机结构组装制造工艺的最新水平；建立和描述：不同工艺参数之间的关系，以及它们如何有助于实现工程要求；超差制造工艺与复合材料（CFRP、铝、钛）接头结构完整性的关系开发一种数据分析方法来管理过程控制和优化制造过程，利用从工业设备（如钻床）捕获的数据和反馈。

Traditional aircraft manufacture can be expensive and slow. Typically, novel manufacturing techniques aim to reduce production costs and time, improve product quality, and enable automation. However, technical challenges still need to be solved before these processes are capable of meeting engineering requirements and being deployed on an industrial scale.The key aim of this PhD is to establish how a specific novel manufacturing technique can be implemented to achieve the greatest positive impacton cost, quality, and time. This includes:Identifing and challenging the state of the art in existing manufacturing processes for assembling aircraft structures;Establishing and characterising:The relationship between different process parameters and how they contribute to the achievement of engineering requirements;The relationship between out-of-tolerance manufacturing processes and the structural integrity of hybrid (CFRP, aluminium, titanium) material joints;Develop a data analytics approach for managing process control and optimising manufacturing processes, utilising data captured and fedback from industrial equipment e.g. drilling machines.