AAR- Austrian Aeronautics Research -Successfully
finished in 2009
The network AAR was finished
recently with a successful external evaluation. The partners continue the
aeronautics research within other projects and programs.
For more information please contact:
ANNELIESE PÖNNINGER
Advanced Materials
and Aerospace Technologies
AIT Austrian
Institute of Technology GmbH
Donau-City-Straße 1
| 1220 Vienna | Austria
T +43(0) 50550-3368 | F +43(0) 50550-3366
anneliese.poenninger@ait.ac.at http://www.advanced-materials.at
AAR-Summary
The Austrian Aeronautics Research network is a collaborative
research program for composite and light weight materials and components.
The network is coordinated by ARC. The major Austrian research groups and companies
in the aerospace sector cooperate in the development of materials, process
technologies, components and engineering methods.
Focuses in research are „Structural Health Monitoring“
for the application in fibre-laminate components and „Damage Tolerant
Design“ for complex metallic components. The main industrial research
tasks of the industrial partners FACC, Magna, Böhler, Pankl, Plansee, AMAG,
Isovolta, FWT, AAe, Schiebel are resins and prepregs, fiber-composite
structures, components for the application and storage of liquid hydrogen,
hollow sphere-structures, Titanium-Aluminides, Titanium-matrix composites,
Aluminium and Titanium alloys and components.
The research partners ARC, MU Leoben and TU Wien offer research
service in materials and component development. MU and TU are active in the
computational simulation and modelling of materials and the according
components. Additionally the AAR test facilities – the high
resolution scanning microscope with focussed ion beam column and additional
analytics, mechanical and fatigue testing for the temperature range - 269
°C to 1800°C, acoustic emission, ultrasonic and impedance inspection
– are available at ARC and MU respectively. The AAR has gained significant scientific
importance in the areas of micro-characterization of materials, fatigue and
fracture mechanics, failure mechanism and prediction of fatigue life of
materials and components.
The network AAR was supported by the Austrian Ministry of Economics and the federal governments of Vienna, Styria, the Tyrol, Upper Austria and Lower Austria.
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