News and Updates
Farewell on behalf of the AIRPOXY partners!
Dear colleagues, After almost four years, AIRPOXY has come to an end on 31 August. The project has delivered highly valuable composites to contribute to maintaining European leadership in aeronautics. Thanks to a family of vitrimer epoxy resins for aeronautics, it has...
New AIRPOXY publications
Three new articles have been published these past weeks: Ruiz de Luzuriaga, A.; Markaide, N.; Salaberria, A.M.; Azcune, I.; Rekondo, A.; Grande, H.J. "Aero Grade Epoxy Vitrimer towards Commercialization". Polymers 2022, 14, 3180. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14153180...
The recording of the AIRPOXY Public Workshop is available
The recording of the AIRPOXY public workshop, 'Trends in composites materials to maintain European leadership in aeronautics', is available! You can now watch the replay of the 11 presentations covering new materials, manufacturing and sustainability aspects.
AIRPOXY at the Conference on Industrial Technologies
Project coordinator CIDETEC Surface Engineering is presenting project results and demos at the Conference on Industrial Technologies - IndTech 2022 in Grenoble. This is a great opportunity to showcase the project in an excellent research and industrial-driven...
The AIRPOXY project held a public workshop in San Sebastian
A public workshop was hosted by project coordinator CIDETEC Surface Engineering close to its headquarters in San Sebastian on 15 June 2022. The programme of the event, entitled Trends in composites materials to maintain European leadership in aeronautics, was divided...
Publication of the CEN Workshop Agreement initiated by AIRPOXY partners
The CEN Workshop Agreement 'Test method for the evaluation of the adhesive properties of fibre reinforced polymer composite joints' initiated by AIRPOXY partners Asociación Española de Normalización (UNE) and University of Ioannina and has been published! Access the...
Draft CWA ‘Test method for the evaluation of the adhesive properties of fibre reinforced polymer composite joints’
The CEN Workshop initiated by AIRPOXY partners UNE - Asociación Española de Normalización and University of Ioannina,'Test method for the evaluation of the adhesive properties of fibre reinforced polymer composite joints', has developed its first draft CWA. This...
New peer-reviewed publications
Two new scientific publications have been authored by our project team since the beginning of the year. Study into the Mechanical Properties of a New Aeronautic-Grade Epoxy-Based Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Vitrimer - Polymers -...
A new issue of the AIRPOXY newsletter
The second issue of the AIRPOXY project newsletter has been published. It includes updates on the different aspects of the project: Development of 3R-Thermoforming technologies Development of 3R-Bonding technologies SHM and development of 3R-Repair technologies...
AIRPOXY hosted a session at the 11th EASN Conference
On 3 September 2021, a session dedicated to AIRPOXY was organised within the 11th EASN Virtual Conference on Innovation in Aviation and Space to the Satisfaction of European Citizens. Within the dedicated session, AIRPOXY partners delivered the following...
CEN workshop: ‘Test method for the evaluation of the adhesive properties of fibre reinforced polymer composite joints’
As part of its standardisation activities, AIRPOXY has initiated a CEN Workshop entitled ‘Test method for the evaluation of the adhesive properties of fibre reinforced polymer composite joints’. The objective is to develop a CEN Workshop Agreement including a test...
AIRPOXY session at the 11th EASN Virtual Conference
A session dedicated to AIRPOXY is planned at the 11th EASN Virtual Conference on "Innovation in Aviation & Space to the Satisfaction of the European Citizens” on 3 Septembre 2021 from 16h55. The planned presentations are: ✈ AIRPOXY: Thermoformable, repairable and...
AIRPOXY featured in Composites World Magazine
Composites World Magazine published a feature story on AIRPOXY for the June edition of its monthly magazine. The article can be freely accessed via the Composites World website.
AIRPOXY presented during a webinar series organised by the Spanish Association of Composite Materials
CIDETEC recently presented AIRPOXY as part of a webinar on 3R composites entitled Materiales compuestos basados en un epoxi vitrímero con funcionalidades de Reparabilidad, Reciclabilidad y Reprocesabilidad. The virtual event was part of a series organised by the...
Development of 3R-FRPC, 3R-thermoforming processes and simulation in lab scale
Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH finalized the processing guidelines for the thermoforming process. It is now possible to manufacture void-free 3R-FRPC parts by 3R-thermoforming. An optimization of the 3R-resin by CIDETEC, a detailed thermoforming process...
Assessment of the knockdown effect in 3R and conventional (RTM6) composites and repair efficiency
Within Work Package 4, the Composite and Smart Materials Laboratory of the University of Ioannina evaluated the knockdown effect between 3R and conventional (RTM6) composites and the repair efficiency. In terms of interlaminar shear strength and low velocity impact...
Production trials in an industrial environment have started!
Partner IDEC has begun the first manufacturing trials at their facilities with the 3R resin developed by CIDETEC in order to produce composite parts by RTM. The results are very promising and they expect to produce the transverse stiffener and skin demonstrators...
AIRPOXY newsletter #1
The AIRPOXY project has published its first newsletter in September 2020. It contains information on progress within the different work packages as well as past and upcoming dissemination events. AIRPOXY NEWSLETTER #1 (SEPTEMBER 2020)
AIRPOXY project video
The aim of AIRPOXY is to reduce production & MRO costs of carbon composites (CC) parts in aeronautics by introducing a new family of enhanced composites that preserve all the advantages of conventional thermosets, while showing new unprecedented features such as...
Mechanical characterization of 3R-panels ongoing
Within Work Package 2, CIDETEC and EURECAT have started recently to characterize the first laminates manufactured with 3R resin. The results will feed the thermoforming simulation models that are being developed by ALTAIR and also the design of the demonstrators in...
First 3R-adhesive has been produced
Within Work Package 3, CIDETEC has produced the first 3R adhesive samples for the Project. Previously, a screening has been carried out to select the resin formulation that best suits the specifications defined in Work Package 1. Now, it is time to optimize the...
AIRPOXY meeting from March 10th to 12th 2020
The AIRPOXY consortium will hold its M18 project meeting and its 4th General Assembly on 10 and 11 March in Brussels. On this occasion the project partner Sonaca Group will host the meeting that will take place in its facilities. It is expected that around 26...
AIRPOXY’s attendance at the 9th EASN International Conference
Between September 3-5, 2019 partners within the AIRPOXY consortium attended and presented at the 9th EASN International Conference in Athens, Greece. The conference had several plenary talks given by representatives of many of the key stakeholders in the European...
Start of WP4 experiments at CSML
The leader of AIRPOXY Work Package 4, Composite and Smart Materials Lab (CSML) of the University of Ioannina, started the first experiments on the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of the novel 3R composites and the development of the 3R-repair technologies. Here is...
AIRPOXY now on Twitter and LinkedIn
The AIRPOXY project is now on Twitter and LinkedIn. Visit us, follow and connect for latest news from the project and consortium!
AIRPOXY special session at 9th EASN International Conference on “Innovation in Aviation & Space”
The AIRPOXY consortium partners proudly announce their attendance at the 9th EASN International Conference on “Innovation in Aviation & Space” at Athens, Greece on 3-6 September, 2019. The consortium partners will be presenting research output on the AIRPOXY 3R...
AIRPOXY as a project example at the 9th EPF Summer School on Dynamic and Reversible Polymer Networks
The head of the Polymers & Composites group in CIDETEC, Dr. Alaitz Rekondo, presented the lecture “Dynamic networks and composites based on aromatic disulfide metathesis”, in which the AIRPOXY project served as an application example of the new vitrimer materials....
AIRPOXY 2nd consortium meeting in Kaiserslautern, Germany
The AIRPOXY partners met for the 2nd consortium meeting and General Assembly in the premises of Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe (IVW) in Kaiserslautern, Germany on 12-13 February, 2019. During the two-day meeting, the partners discussed the developments in the...
AIRPOXY project starts
The kick off meeting of the AIRPOXY project took place at the CIDETEC premises in San Sebastian, Spain on the 5th and 6th of September, 2018 beginning its first steps towards its three and a half year lifetime. The meeting was hosted by the coordinator CIDETEC and...
