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Dr. Tomás Flanagan
June 2015EireComposites TeoAn Choill RuaIndreabhanCo GalwayIreland
www.eirecomposites.comPhone +353 91 505430Fax +353 91 505432
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Presentation Overview
• ÉireComposites• Aerospace• Research• Testing• Renewable Energy
• MarinComp
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Company Overview
• Supplier to 3 aircraft programmes – Bombardier Global, V2500
engine, A400M
• Supplier to 3 Wind Energy Companies
• Composites testing (CTL)
• Patents granted & pending
• Started in 1997 to exploit opportunities for composites technology
• Academic origins but evolved to meet industrial opportunities
• 72 staff, including over 20 engineers
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
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Company Facilities
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
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Bombardier Global Jet
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
• 78 Parts eg skins, spars, ribs • Varying sizes up to 6.0m• Monolithic & Sandwich
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Bombardier V2500 Engine Nacelle
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
IAE V2500 Engine
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Airbus A400M
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
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Selected Current R & D
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
• Future Launchers Preparatory Programme 2.1 – Composite Cryogenic Upper Stage Tank (with ESA)
• Future Launchers Preparatory Programme 2.2 – Composite InterStage Structure (with ESA)
• Automated Tape-Placement of Thermoplastic Composites – Collaboration with Astrium ST & EADS CASA, GSTP)
• Development of Thermal Welding of TPC Aircraft Structures
– Collaboration with Bombardier Aerospace (Northern Ireland)
• EU Framework 7 YBRIDIO Programme– Joining of Dissimilar Materials
• Design and development of TPC Helicopter Structures– Collaboration with Eurocopter Deutschland (Germany)
– Clean Sky Helicopter Door
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Company Testing Facilities
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
• 400kN static test machine
• 250kN static test machine
• 10kN static test machine
• 4 x 100kN fatigue test machines
• 1 x 250kN fatigue test machines
• Fully-equipped workshop for specimen preparation
• DMTA and fibre volume fraction facilities
• Microscopy and void analysis
All static test machines with the exception of the 1MN machine are fitted with environmental chambers & can operate between -75oC to +200oC
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Renewables: Wind Turbine Blades
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
• EireComposites makes wind turbine blade sizes from 1.5m to 13m
• Both thermosetting and thermoplastic blades
• Other companies make blades using RTM or similar
• EireComposites blades made using powder epoxy and heated tooling
• This improves blade quality
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Wind blades
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
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Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
Selected Customers – Manufacturing
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Selected Customers – Testing
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
Aerospace
Wind Power
Other
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MarinComp
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MarinComp
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
Moulds
• Smart Efficient Affordable Marine Energy Technology
Exploitation using Composites
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MarinComp
Manufacturing Testing Tooling Design ResearchCompany Activities
Moulds
• Tidal blades and wind turbine spars
• Sensors on\in blades
• EireComposites is involved in the Wave20 H2020 project aimed
at creating potable water from wave energy
• SEAMETEC
• Perspective from the company’s point of view
• Challenges
• Benefits
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