Juan Ramón Alonso
Sustainable Composites & Functional Polymers Market Manager
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We evaluate material and process alternatives to produce lightweight sandwich structures.
Weight is a vital factor in the transport sector and must be reduced in order to meet CO2 emission limits. As a result, there is strong competition between different types of lightweight materials, and one of the strategies that is gaining ground is the use of solutions based on sandwich structures.
Consequently, as part of this service, we carry out a technical-economic evaluation of the materials and processes for the production of sandwich structures.
Activities:
1) Evaluation of different alternatives for skins.
2) Evaluation and selection of cores (foam, honeycomb…) with different densities and thicknesses.
3) Definition of the most suitable structure and configuration for the sandwich panel by means of structural calculations using ANSYS.
4) Production of small demonstrators by vacuum press, RTM, etc. with different selected configurations. Evaluation of mechanical performance (flexural strength and modulus, compressive strength, etc.)
5) Based on the results obtained.
Sustainable Composites & Functional Polymers Market Manager
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