A. ENTITY DESCRIPTION

AIMEN Technology Centre, with more than 55 years of history, is currently a national and European benchmark in research, development, and technological innovation in the areas of advanced manufacturing and laser manufacturing, digital technologies for manufacturing, smart materials, smart systems and recycling; as well as in the provision of differentiating technological services to the industry in the areas of manufacturing with advanced joining technologies, robotics and process digitization, a flexible cross-engineering service highly specialized in welding, corrosion, equipment calculation, product simulation and material tests.

B. ROLE IN THE HERFUSE PROJECT

AIMEN will be responsible for task 4.2. Here is the scope of this task:

Scope: The main objective of this work package is to define appropriate joining and assembly technologies for all relevant structural and non-structural (e.g. system installation brackets) joints in the fuselage, empennage as well as between the fuselage and empennage. The technologies to be assessed, traded off, and developed up to TRL5 will cover innovative structural bonding and welding technologies. The objective is to join thermoset to thermoset composites (TS) as well as thermoplastics to thermoplastic composites (TP) and to ensure also “hybrid joining”, i.e. joining of two different materials such as TS – TP, TS- metal, TP-metal.