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Multi-level Circular Process Chain for Carbon and Glass Fibre Composites

FIDAMC participates with other 14 companies in MC4 consortium within the project: “Multi-level Circular Process Chain for Carbon and Glass Fibre Composites”. Two main challenges will be faced: on one hand recycling of elements of carbon and glass fibre at the end of their end of life and on the...

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JOB OFFER: COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Nivel: 3-5 years of experienceSalary Range: Negotiable according to valueJob Location: MADRID / SPAINPosition Type: Full TimeJob Category: Bachelor to Master Degree in engineering JOB DESCRIPTIONResearch foundation based in Madrid and fundamentally oriented towards the development and validation of...

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JOB OFFER: THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

Level of experience: 3-5 Years of experienceJob Location: MADRID / SPAINPosition Type: Full TimeEducational Level: Bachelor to Master Degree in engineeringJob Category: Engineer JOB DESCRIPTIONFIDAMC is looking for one engineer with a great interest in research and development projects, who enjoys...

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Fidamc has finished the manufacturing of the integrated rear fuselage upper skin demonstrator

An important achievement has been accomplished by LPA-IADP [WP1.2 advanced rear end] consortium. The integrated rear fuselage upper skin demonstrator has been manufactured, made in preimpregnated carbon fiber material using a cocuring process inside of LPA IADP Platform 1 D02 Rear Fuselage...

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Graphene-doped bezoxazines

FIDAMC and the Materials Science and Engineering group of the Rey Juan Carlos University have published a scientific paper in which the effect of graphene nanoplatelets addition into an aeronautical benzoxazine resin is evaluated. This paper is available in open access through the link:...

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FIDAMC accomplished the ECOFUNEL project

The ECOFUNEL project (H2020-CS2-CFP03-2016-01 # 738047) funded by the European Commission through the CleanSky 2 partnership ended on September 30th, 2020. During this project coordinated by FIDAMC, the members of the Consortium (FIDAMC, CTAG and ADERA-Canoe) carried out research tasks on new...

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Three way collaboration between FIDAMC – Airtech – Airbus.

FIDAMC, Airtech and Airbus have started a collaboration through licensing a technology developed and patented by Airbus and FIDAMC. Such development allows simplifying the bagging process, reducing recurring costs while at the same time improving aeration inside the bag. Through this collaboration,...

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FIDAMC laboratory extends the scope of its UNE EN-ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation

FIDAMC laboratory extends the scope of its UNE EN-ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation in the area of plastics and composite materials with the following tests: · CFRP – Unidirectional laminates: Flexural test parallel to the fibre direction (EN2562)· Structural adhesives – Single lap shear...

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Daniel Pastorino defended his doctoral studies entitled “Closed-form methodology for the structur...

The past 27th of January, our researcher Daniel Pastorino defended his PhD thesis entitled “Closed-form methodology for the structural analysis of composite plates with cutouts”, which has been tutored by the Group of Elasticity and Strength of Materials from the University of Seville.The research...

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FIDAMC expands the scope of its Nadcap certification

FIDAMC has expanded the scope of its Nadcap certification for nonmetallic materials testing, in the categories of mechanical, physical and thermal testing: · Climbing drum peel· G1c· Flatwise tension, sandwich· Resin/fiber/void content by burn off· Coefficient...

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Response of electroless copper coated CFRP laminates to emulated lightning strikes

The research line in lightning strike protection of composites in FIDAMC has led to the publication of the work “Response of electroless copper coated CFRP laminates to emulated lightning strikes” in the journal Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. This work was conducted in...

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Modification of a commercial polyurethane-based paint for obtaining a multifunctional coating

Researchers from FIDAMC and the Group of Surface Science and Nanostructures of the University Complutense of Madrid have published a scientific paper in which they present the modification of a commercial polyurethane-based paint for obtaining a multifunctional coating. This time, it is a two-step...

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New collaboration between Korea and FIDAMC

FIDAMC has initiated a new collaboration project with a Korean team composed by KAL - ASD (Korean Air Line - Aerospace Division) (https://techcenter.koreanair.com/), The Korean Institute of Industrial Technology (Kitech) (http://eng.kitech.re.kr/main/) and Songwol Technologies...

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FIDAMC researchers publish about characterization performed on multiscale CFRPs composites

Researchers from FIDAMC, Avanzare Innovación Tecnológica and Nanesa have published a scientific paper within the frame of the Graphene Flagship project. It collects the results of the characterization performed on multiscale CFRPs manufactured from prepregs containing different graphene related...

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FIDAMC researchers publish in Heliyon journal about Graphene nanoplatelets composites

FIDAMC has published a scientific article in the journal Heliyon. The article is focused on the industrial production of graphene nanoplatelets/PEEK composites through melt-compounding. The research was carried out in collaboration with IMDEA Materials and AITIIP. The article is available at the...

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FIDAMC researchers publish in 'Materials Today Communications' journal about nanocomposites

FIDAMC researchers in collaboration with Material Science and Engineering department of King Juan Carlos University have published a new scientific article in Materials Today Communications journal. In this work the influence of different graphene nanoplatelets in curing kinetics and rheological...

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Fidamc participates in the ENHAnCE ITN project network to train researchers

Fidamc participates in the ENHAnCE ITN of the European Program H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (grant agreement 859957), an innovative network for the training of researchers.As an associate, Fidamc proposes the Doctoral Thesis project: "Novel procedure for designing, manufacturing and...

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FIDAMC participated at FiBreMoD 2019

Our colleague Verónica Rodríguez García attended to the “FiBreMod School and Conference” organized by the FiBreMoD consortium the 9th-12th December at KU Leuven. In this event, focused on merging theory with experiments for improved mechanical performance of fibre-reinforced composites, experts in...

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FIDAMC organizes an open day for the 'Week of Science and Innovation'

For the nineteenth consecutive year, the Foundation for Knowledge madri + d organizes a new edition of the 'Week of Science and Innovation' in Madrid, an event that aims to actively involve Madrid people in Science, Technology and Innovation.This event is held between November 4 and 17 with the...

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Fidamc hosts the 7th Edition of the 'French-Spanish Day of the Aerospace Industry'

On November 5, FIDAMC will host the 7th Edition of the 'Spanish-French Aerospace Industry Day' organized by Madrid Aerospace Cluster in collaboration with Business France (Commercial Office of the French Embassy in Spain) and the Spanish Association of Technological Defense, Security, Aeronautics...

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Students of CEPPe visit FIDAMC

On Tuesday october 15, FIDAMC received the visit of students of Electricity, Electronics and Aeronautics areas of CEPPe-Center for Professional Studies PLM and Engineering. José Ángel Fernández Domínguez, from the Manufacturing and Tooling Department, and David Pérez-Cejuela Ramos, responsible for...

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Concludes the project “Zero-defect manufacturing process”

ZAero project (project number 721362) final meeting took place at FIDAMC during the second week of September. This project framed within the H2020 – Factories of the Future, was winner of the Aerospace Process category at JEC World 2019.It is focused on the automatic detection of defects through...

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New scientific paper in the journal Progress in Organic Coatings

Researchers form FIDAMC and the Group of Surface Science and Nanostructures of the University Complutense of Madrid have published a scientific paper in the journal Progress in Organic Coatings, in which they present a method to obtain superhydrophobic coatings which is inexpensive and easily...

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IntAIRCOAT Conference 2019

The last 14th and 15th of May, Hamburg held the IntAIRCOAT Conference 2019, which is an important event focused on the coating industry in the aeronautic sector. During the presentation “Coatings for protection of industrial components against ice formation”, the researcher María Rodríguez Gude from...

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Development of the calculation of composite plate structures, with circular or elliptical cutouts

FIDAMC has published a scientific article in the journal of Composite Structures. The article is focused on the development of an innovative methodology for the calculation of composite plate structures, with circular or elliptical cutouts, considering variable thickness and stacking sequence. In...

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International Conference and Exhibition on Thermoplastic Composites

The last 30th and 31th of October, FIDAMC attended the ITHEC 2018 conference on Bremen (https://www.ithec.de/home). The 4th International Conference and Exhibition on Thermoplastic Composites, the first and unique expert conference focusing on structural lightweight constructions.Three main...

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Performance Improvement for Vehicles On Track, PIVOT

PIVOT project combines the development of activities in several key Rolling Stock sub-systems to contribute to the achievement of the key S2R Master Plan objectives (high reliability, high capacity, low cost and improved performance) within Innovation Programme 1. Five areas of intervention will...

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FIDAMC produces and prints its own high performance filaments

The Foundation has focused its efforts in developing new materials applicable to ALM (Additive Layer Manufacturing) technology of 3D-printing. Recently, high performance polymer filaments such as PEI (Poly-EtherImide) and PEEK (Poly-Ether EtherKetone) were produced, and in some cases with...

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Influence of phenylphosphonic amide on rheological, mechanical and flammabre properties of carbon...

FIDAMC has published a scientific paper in Composites Part B focused on the influence of phenylphosphonic amide on rheological, mechanical and flammabre properties of carbon fiber / RTM6 composites. This work that has been developed altogether with IMDEA Materiales. ABSTRACTThe aim of this work was...

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FIDAMC at the European Conference on Composite Materials ECCM18

From June 25th to 28th, Athens (Greece) held the European Conference on Composite Materials ECCM18, which is considered the biggest Congress on the field of the composite materials in Europe and the second one in the world. Due to its high importance in the context of this kind of materials, the...

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H2020-SGA-FET-GRAPHENE-2017 Grant Agreement 785219

On April 1st , the second phase of the European project Graphene Flagship Core 2 began. FIDAMC is one of the 143 partners that are part of this project and in this new phase will participate in the production and characterization of hierarchical composite materials for the aeronautical and...

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Installation of lay-up defectology sensors at AFP. Project ZAero

In the search of technologies for the composite final quality improvement, Project ZAero consists in the early detection of defectology thanks to the installation of in line quality control system. These systems are divided into Lay-up sensors, for defect detection during lay-up stage, and curing...

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Unfolding failure in composite laminates. Composites Science and Technology

FIDAMC together with the University of Seville have published an article on competing mechanisms in the unfolding failure in composite laminates in the journal Composites Science and Technology.ABSTRACT:Highly-curved laminates are prone to fail by delamination when they are loaded under a bending...

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Analysis of delamination evolution under compression in thin laminates. ICCS20

ICCS20, “20th International Conference on Composite Structures”, took place from 4th to 7th September at National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in Paris (France). Some of the most important topics were: composite structures, impact, delamination and damage, joints, optimization or multiscale...

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FIDAMC at 15th European Automotive Congress

Francisco Chamorro, head of FIDAMC's Demonstrators 1 Department, will be the speaker on October 4th at the 15th European Automotive Congress, which will take place in Leganés on the University Carlos III de Madrid. The presentation will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will reflect the evolution of the carbon...

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Composite Unfolding. Published Article in Composite Structures.

FIDAMC and Universidad de Sevilla has published an articule about se han publicado un artículo sobre Semi-analytic model to evaluate non-regularized stresses causing unfolding failure in composites.ABSTRACT A novel semi-analytic model is developed to determine interlaminar stresses in laminates...

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Aristeo - Silinco

The use of composite materials has notably increased notably in last years, to the detriment of metals. The advantage of including composites in a design resides mainly in the intrinsic properties of the material: the excellent mechanical properties and its high specific rigidity, which leads to a...

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FIDAMC at EU Industry Day

Almudena del Teso attended the EU Industry Day on February 28 on behalf of FIDAMC.During the event held in Brussels representatives of the traditional sector and new disruptive sector presented their views on the future of business. Entrepreneurs, innovators, star-ups and the tech community shared...

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Compression after impact behavior analysis of composite thin laminates

Research project that includes two parts: a project funded by FIDAMC and Innovation Works called ILIA (Research and development of a new methodology of impacted laminates tests), and the Doctoral Thesis of Marina Remacha on Compression After Impact (CAI) in Carlos III of Madrid University.Motivation...

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FIDAMC has obtained NADCAP accreditation as a testing laboratory for non-metallic materials

FIDAMC has obtained NADCAP accreditation as a testing laboratory for non-metallic materials.NADCAP is an international program to ensure the quality of special processes encompassing various industrial sectors. In its first audit FIDAMC has obtained the accreditation of the following tests: ...

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Manufacturing Assessment of Register Covers

The scope of this project is the manufacturing assessment of prototypes for electrical register covers with circle and rectangle shapes using technologies for high production rates which are close to the industry. Requirements given by the client are tough and demanding regarding production (takt...

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PhD thesis offer

FIDAMC is looking for a PhD candidate. The topic of the PhD thesis is the development of carbon fiber composites with graphene-doped polymer matrix. The candidate must hold a Degree in Engineering or Chemistry and a Master Degree in a subject related to Materials Science that allows access to a PhD...

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Ph.D Thesis Offer

Ph.D Thesis Offer FIDAMC is a Research Center created in 2006 by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, the Regional Government of Madrid and the Airbus Group, focused on the research, development and potential uses of composite materials. The entity is mainly addressed to aerospace activities but widely...

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Monitorization with FBG sensors of thermoplastics materials manufacturing processes. Diego Sáenz...

Aeronautical industry is in continuous evolution and last decades have involved an important reduction of costs and time in both structural weight and automatization of industrial processes.Thermoplastic matrix composite materials are being developed due to they are able to offer a significant...

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FIDAMC Celebrate the Enviromental Day

Once again FIDAMC strengthens its commitment and mark new goals to respect the environment by incorporating innovative recycling projects such as that presented in Congress ECCM17 European Conference on Composite Materials in Munich from 26 to 30 June....

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FIDAMC exceeds successfully the ISO 14001 Environmental Certification

Last 18th May FIDAMC renewed the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System. It was stood out for the maintenance control infrastructure and the anticipation to any changes in the rules governing inspections of safety facilities and equipment such as legionella monthly control.We will keep working to...

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NEODAMP

New Enhanced acOustic DAMPing composite material...

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ESTENEA. High productivity automated manufacturing process for omega stringers with high curvature

The ESTENEA project (STUDY OF LOW COST TECHNOLOGIES AND HIGH RATE PRODUCTION IN COMPOSITES), promoting by CDTI and leading by Airbus Operations in the consortium, includes a plan of development focused on the improvement of manufacturing process and automation solution for serial production for...

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Technological development of composite materials manufacturing processes applied to Ground Servic...

This Project, “Technological development of composite materials manufacturing processes applied to Ground Service Equipment in the aeronautical field”, Carbon-GSE, intends to use methods traditionally employed for composites in order to produce auxiliary equipment used to handle aircrafts during...

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Additive Layer Manufacturing

The ALM (Additive Layer Manufacturing) project is a self-financing project based on the development of 3D printing technologies and the search for associated applications.Among the many options this technology provides, FIDAMC is focused on FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) machines. This system...

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MANHO. Daniel Pastorino Junquero

The use of composite materials is widely extended due to its great specific properties. It is largely used in primary structures of recent aircraft developments. It is usual to find composite structures weakened by the inclusion of holes, maintenance access and cutouts, which implies an important...

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Thermoplastics modelling. Isabel Martin Hernando

Analyzing the aeronautic industry evolution related with the materials employment is detected a noticeable trend focused on the weight reduction. The use of reinforced thermoset composite materials has acted as a key for achieving this goal. These materials are mainly characterized by their thermal...

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FIDAMC with SARISTU (Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structure)

SARISTU is a large-scale integrating project which aims at achieving reductions in aircraft weight and operational costs, as well as an improvement in the flight profile specific aerodynamic performanceThis project has been funded under 7th FP with Grant Agreement nº 284562 FIDAMC has actively...

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FIDAMC become Associated Member in Shift2Rail

FIDAMC becomes Associate Member in Shift2Rail with AERFITEC Consortium, formed by Aernnova, the Tecnalia Technology Centre and FIDAMC, whose consortium is led by Aernnova.Shift2Rail the Joint Undertaking (JU S2R) is a new public-private partnership in the rail sector, established under Horizon 2020,...

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FIDAMC stomp in Europe with Clean Sky 2

FIDAMC becomes Core Partner in Clean Sky 2 on the first call with two major projects, one for the Airbus Large Aircraft passenger and one in the ITD Airframe EADS and Airbus HelicoptersSince last June 23, the Governing Board has signed the acceptance of new members of Core Partner of Clean Sky 2 of...

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SARISTU

The Final SARISTU Conference has been held at TsAGI’s partner facilities in Moscow, Russia on 19-21 May, 2015. FIDAMC attended the conference and presented the work accomplished within the winglet scenario of the project. A paper in collaboration with FACC and Fraunhofer partners was presented. (In...

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