
Acronym: AAIDE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need : Aircraft architectures and equipment different from traditional aircraft make the architecture and segmentation of avionics functions inadequate. For this reason, the partners want to explore economically and technically viable solutions to develop a high performance configurable avionics...
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Acronym: AMPS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The main objective of the project is to design and manufacture power electronic components (motors/inverters/power converters) for eVTOLs of intermediate power (less than 100 kW). The integration and optimisation of the components together is primordial for the electrification of the aeronautic sect...
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Acronym: APIC /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The Control Laws design relies heavily on the level of modeling capabilities included within the tools and/or a simulation environment used which presently, encompasses mainly rigid body modeling. However, aircraft exhibit various undesirable structural flexible modes phenomena that cannot be addres...
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Acronym: ARTIC-CAT /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
In past CRIAQ projects, Bell and its partners analysed and tested new prototypes of low power anti-icing and de-icing systems. The developed solutions could however not be tested at full scale in a representative environment. This project aims at developing a test environment to try those solutions ...
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Acronym: AVEBEC /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need: The aviation industry continues to need a large number of new pilots. Those pilots are usually trained on small aircraft powered by internal combustion engines, with associated carbon emission. Electric-powered aircraft provide the means to reduce carbon emissions, but they are limited to shor...
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Acronym: AeroSeals /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs: Seal design and behavior is hard to predict, particularly for large deflection and large variation of gaps needed for a flexible aerofoil wing design in the area of flight controls. With finite element modeling methodology different designs and configurations can be tested with complex intera...
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Acronym: AirGift /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The project aims at demonstrating a solution for air delivery that fits UML-2 or UML-3 maturity such as medical cargo on predefined routes. The partnership aims at integrating the assets required for viable operation (drone platform, telco infrastructure, VOCC, VAS, airspace regulator) and iterative...
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Acronym: BATMAn /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The idea is to implement a blockchain in partnership with an aerospace company to manage the tracking of aerospace components more efficiently and sustainably. This would: - improve production processes - detect risks of premature failures - prepare the industry for Industry 5.0 The expected resul...
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Acronym: BONWeather /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The project addresses the low-altitude weather data gap at the surface to 1,500m, which impacts the safety, scaling, efficiency, and profitability of the RPAS industry. The gap creates uncertainty, increasing BVLOS flight risk and unnecessary aircraft groundings. We will show the value of higher dat...
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Acronym: CONCIOUS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The project aims to explore AI technologies which can be combined to interpret and understand information on pilot, ATC, and dispatch displays, but specifically in off-nominal conditions. Such an assortment of technologies would be useful in safe operations when the pilot is experiencing workload st...
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Acronym: COULOMB /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The COULOMB project goal is to design a modular battery pack optimized for high discharge rates. The main difficulty related to the development of eVTOLs is the design of a safe and light battery. The high power drawn from the battery during take-off and landing generates a lot of heat within the ce...
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Acronym: CaDePHA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Aeronautical electric propulsion requires high energy density ((kWh/m3) and high specific power (kW/kg). The combined use of H2 fuel cells (FC) and batteries makes it possible to achieve these two objectives. However, batteries and fuel cells do not have the same lifetime characteristics The objecti...
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Acronym: CaPTEN /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need : EVTOLs have different flight characteristics and capabilities than traditional aircraft. For this reason is it necessary to understand and integrate the constraints of airspaces and vertiports / heliports for the navigation of EVTOLs in a BVLOS context and assess the feasibilty of these oper...
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Acronym: CoPITS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
There are a range of superfinishing processes that have been developed that are commercially available to improve compressor efficiency. The process capabilities on complex airfoil shapes are not known and the ability to predict the aerodynamics benefits from superfinishing is not well understood. T...
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Acronym: CrHyO-VTOL /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The proposed project aims at studying the technologies for storage of cryogenic hydrogen to establish its potential and fully understand their integration challenge for future VTOLs. Project will cover storage technologies for cryogenic hydrogen as well as elements required for its transformation in...
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Acronym: CyberVTRA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs: CyberVTRA has the potential to significantly enhance the conception and the evolution of rigs (software updates, networking updates, addition of new equipment) by automating the deployment of a virtual environment, replicating a part or the entire network architecture of the aircraft. Object...
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Acronym: DAyCA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The civil aviation stakeholders face increasingly complex cyber-risks that may impact the continuity of organization operations, flight safety and airworthiness. The supply chain, regulators, manufacturers, and airlines are seeking higher adoption of new technologies, automation, and AI-based equip...
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Acronym: DESK /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
DESK will enable the recently demonstrated St. Bernard Autonomous Search and Rescue UAV platform to operate in GPS denied areas, allowing it to be used in more remote areas and to provide visibility to places and to rescuers previously difficult to reach in a short window of time. By providing the f...
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Acronym: DEVCA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts are being developed to revolutionize the transportation industry" They fly over traffic, drastically reducing commuting time and greenhouse gas emissions. Limosa Inc. is a leading company to design and manufacutre an eVTOL+eCTOL in Québec. Thi...
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Acronym: DOGS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need : Autonomous or remotely piloted systems will require ground control stations. As of today, there is no standard or specification for these stations. This project aims to develop an understanding of operational and certification requirements for ground cockpits and which architectures will meet...
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Acronym: DRONEST /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs: - Better situational awareness for personnel deployment (Defense and Security) - Development of corridors for the transport of goods (Transport, Cargo) - Securing perimeters and infrastructures - Linear: Borders, pipeline - Local: Mines and quarries
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Acronym: DigiSoLE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs: Transform the traditional integration approaches toward this new Digital Age where both physical equipment and Digital Twins can be integrated within a virtual environment where the Hosting Environment may be hosted locally or in the Cloud. This new environment needs to support development a...
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Acronym: DreAM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
- FLYING WHALES Quebec is developing a 200-meter-long airship dedicated to cargo transportation, up to 60 metric tons. - This airship will serve, among others, isolated industries and communities in Québec, Canada and the rest of the world. - For its best possible operability, anticipation of wind...
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Acronym: FLIP /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Exploiting weather patterns (wind, thermals, etc.) has the potential to substantially increase flight times for surveillance aircraft (manned or unmanned) and to minimize fuel consumption during ferry flight. AI algorithms can generate a flight plan from the ground and update flight plans in the air...
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Acronym: FlexBatt /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The performance of the whole battery pack is limited by the performance of the worst cells of the pack, thus depriving the propulsion train to draw the maximum possible energy (reduction of the operational range). We propose to investigate a dynamic reconfiguration according to the internal state of...
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Acronym: FlyVerse /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Airport optimization opportunities abound but the primary challenge is privacy of passenger data. Passenger flow models exist but privacy concerns prevent us from creating a holistic airport operations optimization solution. Realistic simulation capabilities can optimize airport operations holistica...
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Acronym: HF-TS /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The HFTS project aim to develop a tool suite for the Pilot Interface team (HFE) who use quick prototyping tool (Figma, Visio, Axure, etc.) to design and share Human Machine Interfaces concepts (HMI) with OEMs and end-users. The Software team requires detailed requirements to implement the HMI in a D...
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Acronym: Hi-Powder /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need: Develop metallic powder alloy with acceptable ductility that is compatible with additive manufacturing process and that can withstand higher temperatures than current alloys. Objectives: - Melt enough ingot in laboratory to produce experimental-size powder batches. - Atomize alloy to a given ...
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Acronym: ICool /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Objective: The objective of this project is to validate the reliability, the performance and the safety of our innovative thermal management technologies and energy storage solutions for electric and hybrid hydrogen-electric propelled aeronefs. Need: In the framework of this project, we are looking...
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Acronym: IPBM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs : Artificial intelligence technology to model pilot behaviour using biometric sensors that measure pilot stress levels. Objectives : - Integrate the Pilot behaviour modeling in the design of cockpit display systems with the aim of optimizing the design by minimizing the subjectivity of the ev...
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Acronym: IVIASAM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
To reduce the number of materials in individual components like fixtures of cabin monuments, a way to optimize the component's design to incorporate vibration isolation and damping characteristics is sought. Additive manufacturing ensures the producibility of the resulting component design. The pro...
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Acronym: MATeCo /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need: Part 1: This collaboration aims to further develop rigorous testing and validation capacities for AI deployed in aerospace, focusing on the AI sub-domain of computer vision (CV). Part 2: One area of focus within aerospace will be drones/UAVs. These testing methods aim to quantify the reliab...
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Acronym: MC-MF /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
CMC and LASSENA wish to launch a joint research project on MCMF receivers. The performance of multi-frequency and multi-constellation receivers is essential to provide the integrity, availability and accuracy of positioning and velocity in support of navigation and flight controls for the new genera...
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Acronym: ML-NC /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need : As uncrewed (autonomous and remotely piloted) aircraft of different types take to the sky delivering goods, transporting people, or performing tasks like inspections and surveillance, it has become clear that multiple and dissimilar means of communicating with the aircraft are required for sa...
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Acronym: MetalForm /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need for a comprehensive sheet metal process map for acceleration of forming of novel materials, tooling optimization, and cost reduction. Objectives: - Development of strain map method, including robust strain measurement patterning technique, automated visual tracking and mapping of strain measu...
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Acronym: Micro-ML /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need: Robust automated collection and evaluation method of microstructure features such as alloy grain size, second phase size, defects or fractographic features. Objectives: - Determine which key metallographic features can be evaluated using Machine Learning image recognition software. - Build, t...
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Acronym: NAP /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The need of this project idea is to search for information specific to the aeronautical domain through unstructured, independent, and reliable data sources such as specialized aeronautical news, blogs... The main objective is to obtain automated and intelligent analysis and interpretation tools to ...
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Acronym: PIARD /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
- FLYING WHALES Québec is developing a 200-meter-long airship dedicated to cargo transportation, up to 60 metric tons. - This airship will serve, among others, isolated industries and communities in Quebec, Canada and the rest of the world. - To maximise operational availability, it is crucial to b...
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Acronym: Pilot-SAFE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Context : The Pilot-SAFE project idea was originally proposed by Prof. St-Onge and his team from ETS. The project aims at providing data on risk awareness for BVLOS operations with multiple aircraft (cooperative and non-cooperative). Objectives : - Measure operator cognitive load, namely: heart-ra...
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Acronym: PrimaDrona /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs - Build a drone using fixed and rotating wings, slowing the rotor in cruise flight; - Build at the best price, with the latest additive and plastic manufacturing technologies; - Create a vector capable of reaching long distances with the heaviest possible payload; - Support the structural load...
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Acronym: RUWF /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need : Safe BVLOS operations requires reliable weather and wind forecasts for route planning and navigation. Weather forecasts for traditional aviation operations rely on weather data for open environments and do not reflect conditions in the built environment. Reliable wind forecasts will be needed...
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Acronym: SAAVO /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Project of development and demonstration of an aerospace assembly support solution based on computer vision. This system will enable manufacturing companies to identify improvement opportunities in their operations, simplify the resolution of non-conformances and may also help them reduce the risk o...
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Acronym: SAM /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The challenge of SAM project is to improve AI models' accuracy, performance, and scalability in real-world scenarios and the current system. Objectives: - Build an AI solution that detects FOD in real-time through cameras or drones with partners - Build an AI solution that provides abnormality dete...
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Acronym: SIELA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need : Despite the recent developments in UAVs for handling emergencies in BVLOS applications like returning home, hovering, or landing, finding a suitable spot for an emergency landing is still an open challenge. Emergency landing can cause damage to the drone, payload, humans, or surrounding prope...
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Acronym: SOLARMag /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
- FLYING WHALES Quebec is developing a 200-meter-long airship dedicated to cargo transportation, up to 60 metric tons. - This airship will serve, among others, isolated industries and communities in Québec, Canada and the rest of the world. - The airship has a significant need of energy and its bu...
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Acronym: SWAID /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs : - Inspect hard-to-reach areas safely and independently - Reduce the time needed to prepare and carry out an inspection mission. - Reduce the environmental impact of aerial inspection missions - Adaptation to external conditions and unforeseen events Objectives : - Pilot a fleet of autonomou...
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Acronym: SafeAI /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Using AI/ML based system with high level of human-machine interaction is a necessity to deploy autonomous air mobility in urban areas. The existing functional safety tools and methodologies are not capable of addressing the complexity of modern air mobility solutions. New Safety tools are required t...
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Acronym: SkyBridge /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Project outside Quebec Objective: establish a reliable, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly method of transportation using drones to improve connectivity and access to resources for remote communities Research objectives: - Determine feasibility of using drones for BVLOS operations - Ident...
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Acronym: SymbIA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need: Higher level of automation required for Single Pilot Operation and Advanced Airspace will increase the opportunities for conflict between human and automation that can lead to lack of trust in automation, cybernetic misunderstanding and ultimately to catastrophic events. Objectives: - Underst...
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Acronym: TIFAU /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Just as commercial aviation interacts with Air Traffic Management, UAVs will be part of an Unmanned Aircraft Sytem Traffic Management (UTM) ecosystem for BVLOS operations. Defining standards for this new domain must be a fast and joint collaboration between regulators and industry using simulation b...
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Acronym: TISP /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Modern aircraft are flying data centers, therefore the question of “Big Data” is foundational in terms of opportunity within aviation, in this case Trajectory Based Operations (TBO). Aircraft trajectories are based on various considerations while filing a flight plan, however when elemen...
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Acronym: TOPE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs: Bleed Less or Less-Bleed engine configurations are becoming prevalent to reduce the CO2 footprint, thus potentially reducing thermal cabin comfort. Similarly, with a blended wing-body (BWB) configuration to improve energy usage, cabin comfort must be revisited in such a novel aircraft configu...
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Acronym: TOQA /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs: There is a need for simulation driven manufacturing process correlation to parts shapes, with the use of non-intrusive metrology methods for quality control of aluminium parts. Objectives: - Prediction and correlation of thermo-mechanical effects during 3D printing; - Imaging techniques for ...
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Acronym: TOSCA2 /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs: Current tools and software allow to take mechanical constraints in FEA models, however deep understanding of FEMs and sound engineering judgment are required to ensure certifiability of the concepts and non-explicit constraints, especially when considering novel structural airframe architectu...
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Acronym: TReND /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Classical navigation systems for drones are dependent on GPS signal availability to operate nominally. Such systems provide degraded and eventually unusable performance when the GPS signal loss is of long duration. This project aims at adding navigation capability in position and in velocity that a...
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Acronym: TrueWind /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need: Fluid flow experts need to develop and validate various atmospheric simulation models in the context of training. With the advent of electric vertical take-off vehicles (eVTOLs), atmospheric simulation of urban centers will be essential. These flows can affect the flight behavior of eVTOLs in ...
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Acronym: UAVision /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Needs - Development of flight controls for a dual compound UAV (fixed and rotating wing), slowed rotor compound - Development of tracking and detection capabilities for BVLOS flights. - Development of an embedded navigation system (companion computer) - Master all types of take-offs and landings acc...
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Acronym: UPDATE /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Need : Specific sectors require certain categories of drones (long-term surveillance, high autonomy, on-board intelligence, etc.) for which it is possible to consider developing automation and transformation processes using aircraft from General Aviation (GA) for modifications to Unmanned Aircraft S...
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Acronym: Whatsup /Status: Looking for Partners for this Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The increasing use of mobile applications in aviation brings its own set of regulatory challenges related to the integrity of data captured while performing tasks that are part of an organization's Quality Assurance System processes. Need : The mobile application must be able to guarantee the accu...
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Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: C-Pilot /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
Piloting an aircraft is a complex task that requires pilots to be supported by reliable artificial systems. However, the solution of critical situations that appear in an aircraft always depends on the pilots who must intervene by assuming manual control of the aircraft if necessary. Therefore, flig...
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Acronym: MAIDAY /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
Need: This project involves the development of AI algorithms to automate parameter validation, data consistency, and event identification when CAE receives or collects external data sources. Given the large amounts of data generated, advanced data processing infrastructures are required. The analysi...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: Chat-CDS /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
Aircraft systems are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex. Operators wish to maximize flight hours by minimizing the maintenance time. New tools are required to enable crews to quickly navigate technical publications and efficiently perform maintenance. Additionally, aircraft systems evol...
Acronym: CiDAD /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
The goal of this project is to prove the concept of circularity on the A220. According to European and Canadian regulations, companies are responsible for ensuring the most efficient and economical environmental management of all types of waste. Our research aims to increase the recycling rate of th...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: AuGen /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
Need: Technical challenge for formalizing software requirements using generative neural models for testing Research objectives: 1) Validate the potential of different data augmentation approaches on formalizing software requirements, 2) Assess the generative stability of neural models trained with a...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: Eco-Launch /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Maturing Technology
This project will culminate 5 years of R and D, yielding a large-scale technology demo through a rocket launch out of Scotland, UK. This rocket will be powered by Reaction Dynamics’ green propulsion system, manufactured with the support of our Quebec-based partner, Nétur. A subsequent f...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: C-BOND /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
Today’s aircraft comprise 20-53% composite content by weight. Damage can occur during the manufacturing of composite parts and during the service of the aircraft. Damaged structural aircraft components are generally repaired using a composite patch. The repair selection must satisfy a number o...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: AACryoM /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
1. The aluminum alloy parts that make up aircraft structures are largely obtained by machining: a process that is widespread in the industry, but which consumes a large quantity of mineral-based lubricants that are not very environmentally friendly. 2. This ...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: FlawCare /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
The objectives of this project are: (a) Improvement of the ability to detect volume and surface defects in Ti64 components fabricated by laser fusion on powder bed (FLLP), b) Evaluation of the impact of surface roughness, size, geometry and loading mode of FLLP components on their fatigue resistance...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: AMTAC-3 /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMPAAM /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
1. Accelerate thermoplastic pultrusion for aerospace structures 2. Develop high-speed stamp-forming of thermoplastic composites 3. Develop ultrasonic welding of thermoplastic composites 4. Develop multi-material joining techniques for high load-transfer connections
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: ACI-OPT /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
To achieve a carbon-neutral aeronautics industry, aircraft manufacturers must invest in visionary concepts and novel technologies. At the same time, to be competitive, they also need to improve their development processes to make them more efficient and effective. In this context, this project...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: IceGenesis2 /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
i) strengthen Polytechnique Montréal's expertise in the study of aerothermodynamics flows, notably aero-icing and turbulence modeling, ii) increase our understanding on the impact of aerothermodynamics flows on aircraft aerodynamic analysis and design and iii) provide an enhanced training...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: ISFAST /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
Digital twins are generated from 3D CAD or high precision 3D scan which are often not available or very expensive. As such, it is impractical to update the digital twin render. To alleviate the issue the following question is defined: Can a high precision CAD or scan be substituted by an A/C shel...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: NeSIVA /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
Preliminary R&D has been launched by Laboratory of Space Technologies, Embedded Systems, Navigation and Avionics (LASSENA) from ÉTS on a very promising technology, exploiting Signals of Opportunity (SoOP) transmitted by Low Elevation Orbit (LEO) satellites, which quantities are increasing...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: TANDEM /Status: Project in finalization - complete team /Program: Exploring Technology
Certification standards for remotely piloted aircraft (RPAS) weighing more than 25 kg and operating out of visual range are not yet defined by Transport Canada. The RPAS market is booming and the development of optimized, safe and certifiable avionics systems and user interfaces will be a real chall...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: Pilot-AI /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The objective is to increase the complexity of the BA pilot models for desktop handling quality assessments to: •Model nonlinear pilot behaviour for situations where pilots tend to over-command the aircraft •Model pilot behaviour under various circumstances such critical...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: CyberSA /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The aim of this collaborative R&D project is to provide new generation of innovative and advanced cyber security and cyber defense measures for aircraft. The research work will lean heavily on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as knowledge representation techniques and machine l...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: DETONATION /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The objective of the project is to develop tools for rapid predictions of noise sources linked to flows on rotating machines using artificial intelligence techniques. These tools will be integrated into the industrial partner's Optisound software platform in order to respond more quic...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: ADIMOR /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The project aims to support GHGSat operators in their mission to detect methane plumes from satellite and airborne images. An AI-based assistance tool will be developed to help operators focus their analysis on regions, whose images show a high emission potential.
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: OCTA /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
Maya HTT is currently developing a solution to automatically correlate complex thermal numerical models in order to improve the accuracy and reliability of those models and subsequently create reliable real-time numerical twins. The proposed project covers the research and development of this soluti...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: SEASAT /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The aim of the project is to set up a collaborative research project to develop and test a supervision tool for satellite integration rooms based on machine vision. In a context of retirement of experienced operators combined with the need to significantly increase production rates for new business ...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: iNORTH /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
Batteries have been used in electric and hybrid electric vehicles for more than a decade, and worldwide utilization is increasing, including the aerospace sector. Lithium-ion batteries are temperature-sensitive device, which adds a challenge for year-long operation in Canadian weather especial...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: RocketMof /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The project will study potential new fuels and additives that can be used in hybrid rocket engines. The use of these new fuels based on metal-organic framework polymers (MOFs) will make it possible to reduce the use of toxic compounds normally used in industry and to increase the performance of thes...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: MRFS+ /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
Magnetorheological fluid actuators are a new technology offering superior control performance to traditional hydraulic actuators while being lighter, cleaner, and less expensive. Although magnetorheological actuators are inherently reliable because they are free of positive mechanical contacts, t...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: EAP /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The demand for cleaner business jets is growing due to the increasing number of companies implementing environmental initiatives to reduce their carbon footprint. This project aims to identify promising alternative propulsion technologies to reduce the environmental impact of business aircraft wh...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: CERAMIC /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
Hybrid-electric propulsion requires clean and highly efficient new power sources to drastically exceed battery energy density and offset the additional cost of carbon neutral fuels such as hydrogen and synfuel. Exonetik turbogenerator, created in partnership with Université de Sherbrooke, has...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: AHEAD /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The level of power and specific energy required by a long endurance vertical take-off aircraft cannot be sustained by the sole use of energy batteries. Green hydrogen propulsion systems, produced from clean energies, appear to be one of the most promising solutions to meet the performance require...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: ACTec /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
There is an ongoing Industry challenge to continuously improve gas turbine engine efficiency, decrease specific fuel consumption and reduce emissions. To address these challenges, the proposed project will look at several aspects: exploring the use of new abradable materials adjacent to the rotor...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: Oyana-H2 /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
FLYING WHALES’ airships are today the only means of transport capable of moving very heavy loads (over 50 T) between two isolated points, located off land transportation networks at a competitive cost. The aeronautical industry is facing with a double challenge: (i) significantly reduce greenh...
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: EAPM /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
Building upon Marinvent feasibility study that was conducted under an NRC-IRAP project and NSERC-ENGAGE grant with Nergica in the summer of 2019, the proposed project will seek to make adaptations to the current aerospace-optimized (Airfoil Performance Monitor) system for specific use on wind turbin...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: BioFlies /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
In a context of sustainable development, the objective is to replace traditional composites, in the molding complex aircraft interior parts (ex.: fibers glass/ phenolic resin), by using more EHS-friendly and more eco-responsible materials from a synthesis and a manufacturing process perspective. Bio...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: DEEPS /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The market for the electrical propulsion system for UAM, AAM, and eVTOL is estimated to grow up to $9B by 2030. However, due to the battery limitation, vehicle developers have to carefully pick and compare different powertrain components in order to optimize its flight time and range. This project, ...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: TextO /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
This new generation reinforcement will meet a triple expectation: 1) it will make it possible to lighten the final part by offering the possibility of combining several desirable characteristics (mechanical strength, insulating properties), 2) it will facilitate the implementation of the material si...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: Comp-TGV /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
In the context of changing air transport modes and the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), the goal of this project is to address the issue of manufacturing structural composite parts in a cost-effective manner for the 5,000 or so air taxis (Urban Air Mobility) expected by 2030 and other aircraft such as d...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: MCPC /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
MANNARINO Systems & Software, Inc. (MANNARINO) will continue to lead a team of industry professionals and academic experts in the development of its first real-time operating system software (RTOS) certified to ARINC 653 compliant and RTCA / DO-178C, called the M-RTOS. Currently, no Canadian-mad...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVITAGS /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
During Aerial Firefighting missions and operations, several aircraft types and categories are deployed for fighting wildfires. In a standard configuration, air operators deploy air command and control aircraft, air attack aircraft and air tankers to drop water or chemical retardant depending on the ...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: ATLAS-SYNTHESIS /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
This project aims to create a new prototype software tool relevant to Industry 4.0, aimed at optimizing, through the application of artificial intelligence techniques, the aerospace design assurance space, encompassing embedded avionics software, embedded electronics, and cybersecurity as it appl...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: IDIR /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The overall goal of the proposed project is the development of ultrasonic nondestructive testing methodology and portable systems for material joints quality characterization and in-process monitoring based on new approaches, and the application of new generation of NDE systems to two types of mater...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: AIARA /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
A slow production rate, rapid growth of air transportation and enormous backlog of new aircraft orders make the aerospace industry linger on traditional practices and prevents it from moving fast enough to adopt more efficient aircraft designs and advanced materials. An increased level of automation...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: APMC /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
New generations of gas turbine engines are striving to increase their operating temperature to yield greater energy efficiency in the engine cycle. Consequently, improved high performance thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) must be used to protect metallic components exposed to these high temperatures. ...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: REAR /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: VIRTAS /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
Enable the development of hybrid fuselage and wing structures under fatigue cycling and advanced test monitoring techniques - Fuselage and Wing metallic and composite Structure design - Optimized for Static and Fatigue cases - Simulation-aided prediction, planning and monitoring of tests - Scalable ...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: RecCiFiCA /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The project will extend our scientific knowledge in several areas including the processing of raw materials (biomass and recycled plastics), as well as for the carbon fiber manufacturing processes via electrospinning. This project is highly technological and multi-disciplinary because it involves no...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: R3D3 /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The additive manufacturing (AM) process used by FusiA is selective laser melting on a powder bed. This technology is very much oriented towards aeronautics due to its ability to reduce the weight of parts and its maturity on light alloys specific to this field such as aluminum and titanium alloys. F...
Theme: AVIATION SERVICES AND OPERATIONS
Acronym: WE ESM /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
On a More Electric Aircraft, many large Variable Frequency Drives are used. Voltage rise times cause reflective wave issues and EMI issues due to high frequency switching and could also cause corona discharges. Project Objective: - Develop wiring electrical and finite element simu...
Theme: AVIATION SERVICES AND OPERATIONS
Acronym: ADAIR /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The airspace will rapidly change in the next 15 years with increased automation of air traffic control, flight path tracking with strong time constraints and big data e...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: HAMAC /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
This project focuses on the modelling via artificial intelligence of rotary wing aircraft flight by coupling atmospheric models (e.g. complex urban environments) with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models, in particular the interactions of rotors with the ground and the multi-scale urban envi...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: VRDrones /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
StellarX powered by OVA and CHAAC Technology are partnering to create content based on virtual reality drone capture in StellraX software to train Royal Canadian Navy personnel to respond to future oil spills in northern Canada. The "VRDrones" project aims to create 3D terrain r...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: CAVICA /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The proposed project is focused on developing the technologies, means, methods and accumulated expertise necessary to gather and curate the aircraft in-flight icing data that is required to properly quantify the impacts of ice accretion on the safe aerodynamic performance of air vehicles, both tr...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: DIGITWIN /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
1. Scientific benefits of the project Scientific benefits of this project are significant, should the verification and validation process of digital twin work be satisfied. Benefits for the aerospace industry will be maximized providing the potential acceptability by regulators (FAA, EASA, ...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: AI-PAC /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The use of RPAS (drones) in the construction and mining sectors has its share of problems in terms of integration into the work process: lack of standards during data collection, complexity in the analysis of these data and long delays before being able to make interventions according to the results...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: HSE /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
This project seeks to develop an innovative tool to support both the design and the evaluation of regulations and certification processes for single and multidrone technologies. The proposed solution will offer user-friendly functionalities to run drone operations within an ultra-realistic 3D simula...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: safeUTM /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
Our solution suite consists of several components that provide specialized features for making automated, semi-automated, or manual UAV operations much safer, while providing authorities and law enforcement bodies with the tools for oversight and control that can guarantee the compliance with their ...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: NADILE /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
DroneVolt Canada has recently launched a new drone product. This drone, the LineDrone, developed by Hydro-Québec, can land on high-voltage transmission lines to carry out various high-value direct contact non-destructive inspections without interruption of service. This drone is currently pil...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: DAADS /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The main objective of the project is to demonstrate a Detection and Avoidance System (DAA) integrated into a Remote Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS). This demonstration will allow NGC and its industrial partners Laflamme Aéro and CS Canada to increase the maturity of their respective technologi...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: AMAF /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The “Autonomie des Mobilités Aériennes du Futur” (AMAF) project aims to structure the autonomy of new air mobility solutions (Regional Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility) in Quebec through two complementary approaches. First, by capitalizing on the rich technologica...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: IVVES /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
Evolving systems (ES) form a new class of systems that can rapidly change their behavior, due to fast iteration cycles in development and/or to their ability to self-adapt and learn; they can include ML-enabled components. Canadian services and industries have been deploying ES for non-critical doma...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: NEXTGen SDAR /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
The Next Generation Software Defined Avionics Radio (SDAR) for Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) project (NextGen SDAR) is to design, develop and integrate Software Defined Avionic modules (SDAM) into a single hardware unit through a robust and optimized architecture. To do that, t...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: ENVIA /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
This project aims to ensure the safety of control systems based on machine learning. This project will enable the development of more autonomous, efficient and safe drones and aircraft.
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: LDCOMP /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The objective of this project is to develop new inspection techniques based on emerging non destructive testing methods applied to composite parts in aerospace. The methods considered in this study are thermography, digital radiography, shearography and laser-ultrasounds.
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: HYPROP /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
There is considerable interest in the potential for hybrid-electric and electric propulsion systems to reduce emissions and operating cost. However, these systems introduce new failure modes and dynamics that need to be understood, simulated and tested, to be able to offer and eventually certify saf...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AROBAS /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
Reflectarray technology holds great promises for space antennas. However, it is currently too limited in terms of bandwidth to be used on satellite communication systems. Similarly, the construction on printed circuits must be adapted for a space application with all the challenges that this brings ...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: LiBio /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The LiBio project wants to enhance the passenger experience and comfort in business jets through the bionic design and functions integration of interior aircraft components. Combining additive manufacturing with topological optimization will lead to the fabrication of a prototype with a unique desig...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: MANU-1719 /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
Reliability, safety and sustainability are all significant driving forces in the aerospace industry. Developments of new materials, processes and manufacturing steps, must meet these needs and also be economically viable. This proposal is focused on addressing these driving forces for a par...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: FlawDetect /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
In this project, a combination of non-destructive inspection techniques and fatigue testing procedures will be used to characterize the defects induced during 3D printing of load-bearing metallic components of aircraft engines and structures and assess their impact on the fatigue life of these compo...
Theme: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & DATA VALORIZATION
Acronym: DEEL /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
In order to improve processes efficiency and flight safety, aerospace industry is faced with real world problems that are difficult to resolve with classical approaches. Meanwhile, in recent years, artificial intelligence, more precisely machine learning, has made significant improvem...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: AGILE4.0 /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
This project will develop a new generation of multidisciplinary design, analysis and optimization (MDAO) capabilities essential for the development of next generation aircraft. Next generation aircraft are characterized through increasing electrification: more electrical sub-systems, hyb...
Theme: AVIATION SERVICES AND OPERATIONS
Acronym: O2HPA /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
Un des aspects importants de la sécurité aérienne concerne l'entretien adéquat des pistes d'aéroports. Effectivement, tous types de contaminants solides ou liquides, du petit écrou à l'épaisse couche de neige peuven...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: ICARUS /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
High throughput satellites (HTS) offer broadband communication services with capacities in several hundreds of gigabits per seconds, possibly up to terabits per second. At each HTS, signals received from the antenna array are sampled and processed to isolate the signals coming from specific regions,...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: AirsideAI /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
Complying with airports safety and regulatory r...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: SALAD /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
The air mobility of goods, such as food, vaccines and medicines, is vital to many regions of Quebec. The use of unmanned helicopters and other Quebec aerospace technologies will allow for automated, targeted and secure deliveries. Remote areas, isolated sites and other hard-to-reach locations will b...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: SIMSCAN /Status: Project in progress /Program: Exploring Technology
One of the most at...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: SODA /Status: Project in progress /Program: Maturing Technology
Search and Rescue/Wildlife Surveilence in GPS denied areas to demonstrate technology, use cases and new conditions.
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: 1.1 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Le projet a permis le développement d'une technologie de thermoformage par injection de résine dans un moule fermé, éliminant le besoin d'attacher les piéces par des rivets. Un procédé complexe qui entraîne des économies substantielles ...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: 1.12 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The aim of this project is to investigate the induction hardening behaviour of aeronautic martensitic steels in order to control the hardening patterns and predict the field performance of manufactured gears. Futhermore, the model will be used to develop contour hardening on bevel gears.
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: 1.14 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project is to develop methods to make composite materials that are electrically conductive to provide protection for electrical components contained inside composite boxes against electrical spike coming from different sources inside and outside of an aircraft
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: 1.15 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The goal is to develop an optimized design, analysis and manufacturing process for composite materials, using the Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM) process as a technology demonstrator. An expert system will be developed which will integrate and optimize the RTM process.
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: 1.18 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
General Objectives Development of an on-line health monitoring system capable of detecting and identifying faults during engine operation as well as detecting component subsurface damage, and monitoring of the fault and its progression using Non Destructive Testing (NDT) s...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: 1.2 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: 1.20 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The CRIAQ 1.20 Project focused on novel protective coatings for aerospace applications with the main aim to improve erosion- and corrosion resistance and other functional characteristics of the compressor blades and of the leading edge of helicopter rotors.
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: 1.7 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project studied the behaviour of commercially available brazing alloys for joining different stainless steels and Nickel superalloys used in gas turbine engines, on structural and non-structural joints. Characterization of the brazed joints was also performed.
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: 1.8 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Aerospace manufacturing requires a significant proportion of machining of light alloy components. High performance machining will be studied using experimental and model based approaches to optimize machine and process parameters for high speed machining.
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: 2.2 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project is the response to the recognition that the noise level is one of the most important factors contributing to the passenger perception of cabin comfort, in both fixed wing aircraft and helicopters.
Theme: ENERGY EFFICIENCY & HYBRID PROPULSION
Acronym: 2.8 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Given the present state of knowledge and scientific advancement in de-icing technologies, the development of a low energy de-icing or anti-icing system for rotor blades with the capability of operating in icing conditions, constitutes a challenge in itself. Therefore, finding novel technologies an...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: 3.1 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The existing approach to flight object impact (e.g. bird strike) certification is conducted through physical testing. Developing design methodologies based on predictive numerical simulation methods for the high velocity impact would enhance our capability in predicting failure modes and optimizing ...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: 3.2 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The project deals with the quantification of the real-time flight simulation models using state-of-the-art computational flight dynamics techniques in lieu of actual flight test data. Although such approach has wide range of applications, the proposed work will concentrate on the training flight sim...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: 3.4 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
New technologies will be developed to improve the generation of helicopter aerodynamic mathematical models from flight test data using parameter estimation techniques. Methods will be established to employ non-intrusive smart sensor flight test instrumentation systems for these applications. The r...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: 4.1 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The current project, entitled MOSAIC (Multidisciplinary Optimization Standardization Approach for Integration and Configurability), aims to provide the industrial participants with powerful integration technologies and to demonstrate the capabilities of multidisciplinary optimization in the design o...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: 4.14 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: 4.3 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Models, methods and tools for integrated change management throughout product lifecycles: propagating engineering changes to manufacturing documents. Aerospace product development is an iterative process involving various information systems and expertise. This projects aims at defining, developing...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: 4.6_Plan B /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Tube hydroforming is a new manufacturing technology that offers significant advantages and provide high quality products at lower life cost values. It may be critical to aerospace industry but is not yet fully exploited due to a lack of extensive knowledge base for process and tool design and whose ...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: 4.6 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
L'hydroformage de tubes est une technologie de fabrication relativement nouvelle qui offre des avantages significatifs dont un poids réduit et des produits de qualité supérieure à des coûts inférieurs. Sa principale caractéristique est l'usage...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: 4.7 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: 5.3 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: 5.5 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Model-driven development (MDD) is a reality in modern software development, yet the constraints on software certification under DO-178B pose research challenges when applying formal methods. We seek to reduce the costs of certified avionics software using MDD and formal methods.
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: 5.6_Plan C /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Modern avionics systems are software-intensive systems composed of a network of heterogeneous distributed embedded processors. These safety-critical systems must exhibit a series of quality attributes, among the most important being the system safety, reliability and fault-tolerance. Organizations...
Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: 6.1 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
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Theme: NEXT-GEN MANUFACTURING, TEST & MAINTENANCE
Acronym: 6.2 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project is divided in two sub-projects: Pressure MEMS sensors for GTE applications and Temperature MEMS arrays for GTE applications. This last portion is already completed. The effort over the past 6 months was directed mainly towards the MEMS demonstrator. A detection system comprising two d...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: 7.1 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project aims to investigate the design and to demonstrate the feasibility of an aeroelastic aircraft wing capable of modifying its geometry in real-time during flight in order to optimize the performance of the aircraft for a range of flight conditions.
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: ACOU-1 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Pratt & Whitney Canada experience in nacelle acoustic treatments shows that extensive efforts are still required to ensure that liners are fabricated according to acceptable standards and to ensure that the liners acoustic performance are met. The project addresses these requirements (i) by develo...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: ACOU-2 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
In a continuation to the previous CRIAQ 2.2 project, this project is directed to develop an active control system for drive noise reduction for demonstration on board of a helicopter. The goal is to validate the effectiveness of active control in the real environment.The general objective is...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: ACOU-3 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
When it comes to acoustic comfort of an aircraft, usual engineering metrics (based upon A-weighted Sound Pressure Levels or Speech Interference Levels) do not "tell the whole story". In this respect, it would be very useful to be able to "hear" the ambiance of an aircraft cabin before it flies, an...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: ACOU-4 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The general objective is to develop a low-cost, low-weight, low-noise composite that will satisfy helicopter industry requirements. The specific objectives of the projects are as follows: +Identify and characterize vibro-acoustic treatment materials that will be compatible with the composite...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: ACOU-503_INTL /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Caractérisation aéroacoustique expérimentale et numérique de vannes de pressurisation aéronautiques en vue de réduire leur bruit dans les différentes phases de vol. ...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: ACOU-504_INTL /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The main objective is to develop add-on sound acoustic protection of launchers payloads under constraints. The structural-acoustic performances (joint optimization of the composite structure and the acoustic blanket) in low-mid frequencies will be achieved.
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: AUT-1629_TRL4+ /Status: Completed Project /Program: Maturing Technology
This project aims to introduce new emerging technologies to the aerospace arena, while also contributing to areas of research. Today, rising trends in the aerospace industry are include in the areas of automation, miniaturization, overall mission cost reduction, reduction of energy footprint. This p...
Theme: UAVs AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Acronym: AUT-703_TRL4+ /Status: Completed Project /Program: Maturing Technology
The project CARIC AUT-703 involves four Canadian SMEs supported by two specialized Engineering universities, École Polytechnique de Montreal and the ÉTS, in order to develop several concepts and technologies in the field of UAVs. The quartet of companies will demonstra...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: AVIO-1503_TRL4+ /Status: Completed Project /Program: Maturing Technology
Active haptic pilot controls have the capability to generate tactile cueing signals to warn the pilot of approaching flight envelope limitations or hazards. This is particularly of interest for helicopters because they regularly operate near their maximum gross weights and power levels. Active hapti...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-1601_TRL4+ /Status: Completed Project /Program: Maturing Technology
o A Degraded Visual Environment (DVE) exists when conditions of low visibility, including conditions caused by rotor downwash in sand/dust (“brown-out”), snow (“white-out”/snowball) or water, obscures both horizon and terrain features. A DVE may also occur when environmental ...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-1603_TRL4+ /Status: Completed Project /Program: Maturing Technology
To answer customers concerns and to be compliant with FAA requests on the subject, aircraft and flight systems manufacturers must collect in-flight data for cosmic radiations and develop a global strategy for real-time processing of this data to provide pilots, crew and aircraft operations, appropri...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-402 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project aims at developing a new avionics communication network allowing a reduction of the complexity of cabling by adopting a smaller wire-count solution, using the state-of-the-art avionics data network technologies. Digital interfaces will be developed to connect the legacy position senso...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-402_INTL /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
L'introduction de nouvelles architectures avioniques, telles que l'avionique modulaire intégrée (AMI), et l'augmentation du nombre et de la complexité des composantes embarquées dans les aéronefs impliquent un accroissement considérable de la quantité de données échangées. Pour répondre...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-403_Plan C /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project aims to explore design and verification techniques for radiation tolerant electronic systems that ease test, diagnosis and fault emulation. Cosmic radiations have always been associated with space missions. Until recently, the space community was practically the only one preoccupied w...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-403_INTL /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
L'objectif principal de ce projet est le développement et la validation de techniques de conception et de vérification facilitant le test, le diagnostic et l'émulation de pannes pour les systémes tolérants aux radiations, dans le but d'accélérer...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-404 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project will develop new antennas that will be compatible with the electric properties of composite materials used in future fuselages. The effects of composite materials on wave propagation and the reduction of electromagnetic interference associated with radio equipment will be studied. ...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-503_Plan C /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project aims at applying Model Driven Architectures (MDA) and Development Environment (MDE) to build Time-Triggered Architectures (TTA), defining models and automatic techniques for developing and integrating TTA based mixed criticality avionic systems, and experimenting integrated modular avio...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-505 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Le projet consiste en la mise en place de méthodes et de systémes de traitement des informations pour des dispositifs de communication efficace et efficiente dans le domaine de l'aéronautique et de l'aérospatial. Ce projet vise l'intégration des multiples sys...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-506 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Modern systems interfaces definition, evolution and tracking are an ever increasing challenge. The growing functional density, distributed over multiple processing resources, cause the physical and function interfaces to be increasingly difficult to manage. This problem becomes more intense with th...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-508 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
On board avionics systems are rapidly increasing in complexity and are starting to use advanced technology such as real-time ethernet, multicore distributed systems and virtualization. The possibilities and expectations for detailed extremely realistic simulations have greatly increased the need for...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-509 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This research project will address the IMA challenges, with an emphasis on two crucial aspects for our industrial partners: 1) the architectural impact of important components of the IMA platform including the system configuration, the operating system and the communication network and 2) the migr...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-601 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Technological developments will continue to lower the entry requirements for space, increasing the number of players in orbit. As a consequence, radio frequency interference in space will be growing. New technologies as well as existing technologies used in military applications or in extremely con...
Theme: INNOVATIVE DESIGN & SIMULATION
Acronym: AVIO-604 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
(1) Procuce avionics software models, using enhanced design notations for understandability. (2) Model compiler producing certifiable code. Languages : UML, Simulink Objectives: + Create an enhanced UML profile inspired from RSML +Requirements State Machine Language + Create a methodology for Simuli...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-605 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
System test methodology, based on the Test and Test Control Notation (TTCN-3) Objectives: + Gap analysis between TTCN and current test languages and environments. + Upgrade TTCN language and associated tools if necessary. + Large scale case study. Use of codecs in test environments and in target...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-606_Plan C /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The increasing demand of LCD displays in glass cockpits requires the need to introduce new display technologies at lower cost and higher performance. Objectives: + Caracterize the OLED display technology for avionic applications and identify ways to ruggedize it + Identify OLED type suitab...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-613 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project aims at applying Model Driven Architectures (MDA) and Development Environment (MDE) to build Time-Triggered Architectures (TTA), defining models and automatic techniques for developing and integrating TTA based mixed criticality avionic systems, and experimenting integrated modular avio...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-707 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The general objective of the proposed research is to investigate the feasibility of implementing electronically reconfigurable antennas with the following desired characteristics: capability to operate under realistic transmit power conditions, flexibility for beam steering and shaping, capability o...
Theme: AIRBORNE SMART TECHNOLOGIES
Acronym: AVIO-718_TRL4+ /Status: Completed Project /Program: Maturing Technology
Since 2013, Design Exonetics (a spinoff from the CAMUS - Conception d’Actionneurs et de Moteurs de l’Université de Sherbrooke – laboratory) has been developing a novel actuation technology for the aerospace industry in collaboration with an aerospace OEM. The technology offe...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-BAVARIA-1_INTL /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The objective of the project is to manufacture an aerospace fibre composite prototype with thermoplastic matrix materials in order to compare with aluminium and standard thermoset materials in term of weight, performance, manufacturability and cost. ...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-1 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The main objective of this project is to investigate the relationship between the performance (mechanical, quality) and the production costs (tooling, cure cycle) associated with the manufacturing of a composite airframe structure using out-of-autoclave technologies. Suitable materials must be id...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-1601_TRL4+ /Status: Completed Project /Program: Maturing Technology
The new generation of complex composites structures that will be developed by Hutchinson and its partners will integrate several functions, including mechanical and robustness contribution brought by the integrated structure, esthetic contribution and more. These new technologies will allow to reduc...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-1602_TRL4+ /Status: Completed Project /Program: Maturing Technology
The aviation industry is constantly progressing towards its goal of minimum impact on the environment, with the aim to reduce in half its carbon emission by 2050 (IATA). To reduce the carbon emissions of an aircraft, with the same flying time, the aircraft manufacturer strives to reduce its weight a...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-1633_INTL /Status: Completed Project /Program: Maturing Technology
Due to aircraft manufacture volume increase there is a dramatic need for economic fibre -reinforced composite materials and processing technologies that fulfil - besides high mechanical properties and reliability - also specific fire, smoke and toxcity characteristics (FST). As inherent flame retard...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-3 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Polymer matrix composites are increasingly used in the aeronautics industry. Some of these materials can withstand temperatures up to 550F in service over long periods of time. Exposition to elevated temperature leads to a viscoelastic behaviour for the matrix, which can have significant influence o...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-407 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The objective of this research program is to propose experimental and modeling methodologies to determine endurance limit for damage onset in composite based on fracture mechanics and fatigue crack initiation monitoring using wave mode propagation based on Modal Acoustic Emission new approaches (MAE...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-410 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Developments of design methodologies based on predictive numerical simulation methods for soft and hard body impact that would enhance our capability in predicting multi mode failure mechanisms and optimize structural design. ...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-412 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project involves the development of analytical modelling and simulation tools, combined with novel, optimized tooling and manufacturing techniques for the cost-effective use of compression molding in the design and manufacture of aerospace structures. ...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-413 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project investigates the defect formation emerging during the AFP manufacturing of curvilinear shaped composite structures. An integrated optimization module will be developed to manufacture optimized composite parts free of detrimental defects. ...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-415 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Composite materials used to make space structures are subjected to space environments where the temperature can fluctuate between -170 oC to + 150 oC, where different types of failure may occur. The project studies this problem.
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-5 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project aims at the development of tapered thermoplatic composite tail booms for helicopters which has the configuration of a tapered cylinder. It connects the cabin of the helicopter to the tail rotor, whose function is to control the direction and stability of the aircraft. The tail boom is s...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-501 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Infusion processes offer great potential for accelerating the production of aerospace polymer composite parts and reducing unit costs when compared with traditional prepreg-based techniques. However, producing carbon fibre preforms to the complex shapes of 3D composite parts by assembling multiple l...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-502 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
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Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-506 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
The goal is to develop an optimized design methodology for bolted/bonded joints for composite materials. When anaylzed independently, there are existing methodologies for both bonded and bolted joints. Combined together as a bolted/bonded joint, the problem becomes more complex. The interactions and...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-507 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
Composite materials are increasingly being used for primary aircraft components because of their superior performance such as high strength and stiffness, long fatigue life and light weight. These components will eventually develop damage in service and will have to be repaired. Some repair methodo...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-509_INTL /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
L'objectif du projet de recherche envisagé consiste à mettre au point de nouveaux centres de têtes rotor en matériaux composites ayant une capacité de battement de 7 degrés tout en ayant une durée de vie en fatigue similaire à celle des cent...
Theme: ADVANCED MATERIALS AND STRUCTURE
Acronym: COMP-510 /Status: Completed Project /Program: Exploring Technology
This project will develop a complete industrial solution based on nanochemicals for the manufacture of structural parts and tooling using resin film infusion, with a focus on the effect of a nanochemicals modified resin on the processing and performance of fibre reinforced composites. A lot...