Aeronautics

Urban Rescue

CAD model of the planned crash demonstrator
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eVTOL Air Taxi
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Interdisciplinary structural design: Crash-Manufacturing-Production
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Duration: 2020-2024

In the Urban Rescue project, the most diverse aspects of rotorcraft, such as the eVTOL configuration, are being investigated for airborne urban rescue operations.

The participating departments of the Institute of Structures and Design in Stuttgart are Component Design and Manufacturing Technologies and Structural Integrity, and at the Augsburg site the Department of Automation and Quality Assurance in Production Technology, which is also the Augsburg Centre for Lightweight Production Technology.

Together they are taking an interdisciplinary look at the structural design of these eVTOL configurations. In the Urban Rescue project, a special focus is placed on the floor assembly. This is being developed cooperatively under continuous interdisciplinary exchange and built up to a testable demonstrator. In addition to the classic structural design, the crash calculation and the consideration of manufacturing and production aspects are also included in the design phase and analysed. The aim of linking design, crash calculation and production is to develop an underbody that combines an optimised structural design with innovative production processes.

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Contributors

Automation and Quality Assurance in Production Technology

The Automation and Quality Assurance in Production Engineering department, which also represents ZLP Augsburg, completes the process chain for carbon fiber reinforced plastics. The aim is the end-to-end automation of the production process for manufacturing fiber composite structures.

Structural Integrity

Aims of the research activities are to develop simulation and test methods and to design aviation structures so that accidents or incidents in the crash and impact category are survivable for occupants. This includes material and structure tests as well as numerical analyses from sample level up to full-scale structures.

Component Design and Manufacturing Technologies

The Component Design and Manufacturing Technologies department develops monolithic and hybrid lightweight structures and the corresponding manufacturing processes for aircraft, spacecraft and for road and rail vehicles.

Center for Lightweight-Production-Technology

The Center for Lightweight-Production-Technology (ZLP) in Stade was founded in 2009. It has been an independent location of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) since 2011.

Contact

Alexander Cords

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Institute of Structures and Design
Am Technologiezentrum 4, 86159 Augsburg