Pierpaolo CARLONE | Projects

Environmental and economic reasons are driving the transport and other industries to a wider usage of lightweight hybrid materials, often based on a combination of thermoset and thermoplastic polymers.Cocuring processes are a promising candidate fo the manufacturing of those structures, however the identification of conditions leading to good adhesion is still a challenge. The aim of this project

The project is focused on the achievement of the following objectives:a) Development of a better understanding of mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of composite textiles b) Development of a computational framework to: - predict the tool path and movement of the robots in order to achieve the correct shaping of the preform, avoiding defects such as wrinkling and spreading of the

Environmental and economic motivations are driving the transport industry to a wider usage of lightweight composite materials, often requiring surface metallization. Cold spray (CS) is an innovative additive manufacturing technique, successfully proved to deposit thin metallic coatings on metal substrates, however the metal-to-composite coating by conventional CS process is still an open challenge

The project is focused on the achievement of the following objectives:a) Development of a better understanding of thermo-mechanical interactions in multi-material structures b) Development of a computational framework, based on a building-up multiscale approach, to predict: - a set of validated CTE for the composite and metallic materials, including manufacturing induced effects; - a methodo