Structural Integrity
(formerly Aerospace Materials)
Welcome to the website for the Structural Integrity group (formerly the Aerospace Materials group). We thank you for your time and interest in visiting our website. Our group specializes in research aimed at improving the design, safety, manufacturing, and maintenance of aerospace products. Please take the time to learn more about our group and its research vision, and explore the people and current research activities which make up the Structural Integrity group.
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Latest News
Airbus Internship Opportunity - Work on the A380
Airbus has an immediate internship opportunity for a TUDelft Masters student to work on the redesign of a lower fuselage skin panel. This is a unique opportunity to do engineering design work on a flying aircraft structure, and will include tasks such as:
- Analysis of dimensioning and failure modes of existing aluminum structure
- Design and analysis of a tailored hybrid Glare skin panel design
- FE analysis and layup optimization
For more information, take a look at the flyer here or contact Prof. Rinze Benedictus at R.Benedictus@tudelft.nl
Final Internship Update from John-Alan in Australia
Part of the benefit of doing a Masters Project within the Structural Integrity group is getting the opportunity to connect and hopefully undertake an internship with one of the various companies and organizations with which the group works with around the world. John-Alan Pascoe is on such lucky student who has travelled to Australia to carry out an internship at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). Click here to read John-Alan's latest update on his internship in Australia and being part of the Structural Integrity group.
New Masters position on repair of composite wind turbines
In collaboration with Suzlon, a major manufacturer of wind turbine blades, the Structural Integrity group is seeking a candidate for a Masters student position on structural repair methods for GFRP wind turbine structures. To maintain cost effectiveness, wind turbines are manufactured using low cost composite manufacturing techniques and by repairing, rather than scraping, parts with manufacturing faults such as wrinkles, air inclusions, and foreign objects in GFRP material. Specific attention to proper design of structural repairs is highly important to reduce fatigue damage of the turbine blade and consequent replacement costs. The objective of the thesis work is to generate repair design guidelines which can be applied to validate the Standard Repair Manuals currently used address manufacturing related faults. More details are available here.
