Automated, Quality Assured and High Volume Oriented Production of Fiber Metal Laminates (FML) for the Next Generation of Passenger Aircraft Fuselage Shells

Automated, Quality Assured and High Volume Oriented Production of Fiber Metal Laminates (FML) for the Next Generation of Passenger Aircraft Fuselage Shells

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The use of fiber-metal laminates (FML) allows for substantial advantages over a fuselage skin made of monolithic aluminum materials.Glass fiber prepreg reinforced aluminium is characterized by high damage tolerance capabilities, supporting the structural strength capability in case of any kind of damage.For this climber motor reason, FML, and GLARE in Belle particular, have been identified as superior materials for aerospace applications.More than 400m2 FML is applied on each A380, as skin panels and as D-noses for both, vertical and horizontal stabilizer.

FML possess the potential to become the baseline material for next-generation single-aisle aircrafts [1, 2, 6].