Composite Design Department
The department Composite Design offers a closed development chain from the first sketch of composite structures, their sizing up to a design for an efficient production:
- preliminary design: Herein, design concepts, an adequate selection of materials, hybridisation, and further aspects specific to fibre composites are being addressed.
- sizing: design concepts are optimized and assessed by using low and high fidelity simulation tools, which also take into account probabilistically distributed material and manufacturing parameters.
- detailed design: In the end the detailed design is realized under consideration of tolerance management, quality assurance and appropriate tool concepts.
Particular emphasis is placed on the design of multi-functional structures, which contain additional features like electrical conductivity, acoustic noise absorption, information transmission etc. besides their required structural mechanical properties.
"From requirements via concepts to multi-functional structures"
Competences
The department Composite Design proves itself as a strong link between research and industrial application in the following topics:
- door surround structures in future aircraft
- composite-driven design of airframe structures
- CFRP-metal hybrid structures in aerospace applications
- design considering relevant manufacturing aspects, e.g. spring-in effects
- tools and facilities for efficient and economic CFRP-production
- deployable structures in ultra-lightweight space applications
- design of multi-functional lightweight terrestrial vehicles
The closed development chain and the design of multi-functional structures are subject of continuous common research work with our partners.