The Project

Introduction

ADVITAC is a Small or Medium-Scale Focused Research project under the Seventh European Framework Programme of Research and Technological Development (FP7). Partners from EU are partially funded by the European Commission (EC).

Project Acronym:

ADVITAC

Project Reference:

234290

Contract Type:

Small or medium-scale
focused research project

Start Date:

2009-05-25

End Date:

2012-11-24

Duration:

42 months

Project Cost:

€ 5.9 million

Project Funding:

€ 4 million

Coordinator:

Daher Aerospace

Advanced Integrated Composite TailCone - ADVITAC

New requirements and ecological policies for greener aircraft have led the aeronautic industry to consider new approaches for aircraft development and manufacture. The aircraft tailcone appears to be a strategic component for reducing aircraft noise, fuel consumption and nitrogen oxide emission notably because of its integrated Auxiliary Power Unit (APU). The project’s central focus is to design and manufacture lightweight multi-layer/multifunction and smart composite tailcone in a fasteners-less fully integrated structure made with a fully integrated and automated process, allowing significant cost saving.

In order to ensure a thinner, cheaper and safer system, new architecture, design concepts and manufacturing processes for the integrated tailcone should be investigated. The Advanced Composite Integrated Tail Cone project brings together a consortium that has an overview of all the complete set of problems concerning tailcone structure and APU integration. Significant weight and cost savings are expected when the solutions to issues to be addressed by each of the partners have been consolidated in a design to cost approach.

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