Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures (SARISTU)

SARISTU: Six years of project management.- Morphing Wing integrated safety approach and results.- Development and validation of a Bird Strike Protection System for an Enhanced Adaptive Droop Nose.- Adaptive Trailing Edge: Specifications, Aerodynamics and Exploitation.- Structural Design of an Adaptive Wing Trailing Edge for Large Aeroplanes.- Design, Optimization, Testing, Verification, and Validation of the Wingtip Active Trailing Edge.- Winglet design, manufacturing and testing.- Ribbon tapes, shape sensors and hardware.- Methodologies for the Damage Detection based on Fiber Optic sensors. Applications to the fuselage panel and lower wing panel.- Methodologies for guided waves based SHM system implementation on composite wing panels: results and perspectives from SARISTU Scenario 5.- An electro-mechanical impedance based mobile system for structural health monitoring and reliability check of bonded piezoelectric sensors.- Damage Identification in Composite Panels - Methodologies and Visualisation.- Manufacturing of CFRP panels with integrated sensor network and contacting of the network.- Flat and curved panel manufacturing.- Compression after multiple impacts: modelling and experimental validation on composite coupon specimens.- Piezochromic compounds able to be used in shock detecting paints.- Brittle coating layers for impact detection in CFRP.- Use of Carbon Nanotubes in Structural Composites.- Enhancement of primary structure robustness by improved damage tolerance.- Improvement of the electrical isotropy of composite structures- Overview.- Fabrication of carbon nanotubes doped veils.- Morphing value assessment on overall aircraft level.- Implementation of Morphing, Structural Health Monitoring and Nanomaterials on an Outer Wing Box.- Fuselage Demonstrators: An overview of the development approach.- Development of a Door Surround Structure with Integrated Structural Health Monitoring System.