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Competence Network for Aerospace Technology

The Austrian Aeronautics Research network is a collaborative research program for composite and light weight materials and components. The network is coordinated by AIT. The major Austrian research groups and companies in the aerospace sector cooperate in the development of materials, process technologies, components and engineering methods.

AFocuses in research are „Structural Health Monitoring“ for the application in fibre-laminate components and „Damage Tolerant Design“ for complex metallic components. The main industrial research tasks of the industrial partners FACC, Magna, Böhler, Pankl, Plansee, AMAG, Isovolta, FWT, AAe, Schiebel are resins and prepregs, fiber-composite structures, components for the application and storage of liquid hydrogen, hollow sphere-structures, Titanium-Aluminides, Titanium-matrix composites, Aluminium and Titanium alloys and components.

The research partners AIT, MU Leoben and TU Wien offer research service in materials and component development. MU and TU are active in the computational simulation and modelling of materials and the according components. Additionally the AAR test facilities – the high resolution scanning microscope with focussed ion beam column and additional analytics, mechanical and fatigue testing for the temperature range - 269 °C to 1800°C, acoustic emission, ultrasonic and impedance inspection – are available at ARC and MU respectively. The AAR has gained significant scientific importance in the areas of micro-characterization of materials, fatigue and fracture mechanics, failure mechanism and prediction of fatigue life of materials and components.

The network AAR is supported by the Austrian Ministry of Economics and the federal governments of Vienna, Styria, the Tyrol, Upper Austria and Lower Austria.

Partner - Coordination

Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Advanced Materials and Aerospace Technology
A-2444 Seibersdorf
Contact: DI Anneliese Pönninger
Tel: +43 (0) 5 0550 3368
Email: anneliese.poenninger@ait.ac.at
www.ait.ac.at

Industrial Partners

Fischer Advanced Composite Components AG
Fischerstraße 9, P.O.Box 192
A-4910 Ried, OÖ
Contact: DI Elisabeth Ladstätter
www.facc.co.at

MAGNA STEYR Fahrzeugtechnik AG & Co KG
Puchstr. 85,
A-8020 Graz, Stm
Contact: Dr. Klaus Brunnhofer
www.magnasteyr.com

Pankl Aerospace Systems Europe GmbH
A member of Pankl Racing Systems
Industriestraße West 4
A-8605 Kapfenberg
Contact: Robert Schreiber
www.pankl.com

Plansee Aktiengesellschaft
A-6600 Reutte
Tirol
Contact: Mag. Klaus Rißbacher
www.plansee.com

Böhler Schmiedetechnik GmbH & Co
Mariazellerstr. 25, Pf 96
A-8605 Kapfenberg, Stm.
Contact: Dr. Sascha Kremmer
www.bohler-uddeholm.com

Isovolta AG
Isovoltastraße, IZ-NÖSüd
A-2355 Wr. Neudorf, NÖ
Contact: Mag. Raimund Fritzl
www.isovolta.com

AMAG rolling GmbH
Postfach 32
A-5282 Ranshofen
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Carsten Melzer
www.amag.at

Airbus Deutschland GmbH
Kreetslag 10
D-21129 Hamburg
Contact: Dr. Andreas Westenberger
www.airbus.com

FWT Wickeltechnik GmbH
Werner von Siemens-Straße 7
Werner von Siemens-Straße 7
A-2620 Neunkirchen
Contact: Günther Kautz
www.fwt.at

Austrian Aerospace GmbH
Breitenfurter Str. 106-108
A-1120 Wien
Contact: DI Andreas Derntl
www.space.at

Schiebel Elektronische Geräte GmbH
Margaretenstr. 112
A-1050 Wien
Contact: Mag. Mehrdad Khalili
www.schiebel.net

Scientific Partners

Technische Universität Wien
Institut für Leichtbau und Struktur-Biomechanik
Gußhausstr. 27-29, A-1040 Wien
Contact: Dr. Heinz Pettermann
ilfb.tuwien.ac.at

Montanuniversität Leoben
Institut für Allgemeinen Maschinenbau
Franz-Josef-Straße 18, A-8700 Leoben, Stm.
Contact: Univ.Prof. Dr. Wilfried Eichlseder
www.unileoben.ac.at/~maschbau/welcome.html

ARC Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen GmbH
Amag - FVA - Gebäude
Postfach 26
A-5282 Ranshofen
Contact: DI Rudolf Gradinger
www.lkr.at

Funding

The Austrian network for Aeronautics research (AAR) was founded in 2000 and will end as a publicly funded program in 2008. The total preliminary budget is approximately 20 Million Euro.