Sustainable Materials for Green Aviation: From Concept to Realization

Sustainable materials towards green aviation: Conceptualization to Realization

Objective

• Extensive literature review for conceptualization of the project and to identify suitable sustainable materials as well, Design of composite fabrication methodologies and their optimization for efficient and high quality production, Development of composite samples and their mechanical, thermal and physical characterizations to produce potential sustainable materials on lab-scale, Development of an inbuilt structural health monitoring system using smart nanoparticles for monitoring structural integrity in real-time. Demonstration of the technology by performing laboratory experiments using standard sensors and data acquisition systems.

Description

• Technology to be Developed: Fabrication methodologies for producing efficient, high-quality and inexpensive natural composite materials, Inbuilt structural health monitoring functionality based on smart nanoparticles for monitoring the structural integrity in real-time

Impact

• The modern-day aircraft structures are majorly made of synthetic fiber reinforced polymer composites. These synthetic fibers and polymers are again made from petroleum products. Thus, contributing more to greenhouse gasses and global climate change. The sustainable composite materials can overcome such limitations of the synthetic polymer composite laminates.