FRANÇAIS
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Technology Transfer
Intelligent Textiles
Applications
 Weaving on Dornier works
 Reinforcement of carbon composite plates
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Defense & Security
- Individual protective clothing, pilot aircraft and tanks shields.
- Advanced fuel tanks.
> Aerospace
- Stiffening of panels under compressive loads.
> Sailing
- Large rigid and wrench-proof unfurlable sails.
> Civil Engineering
- Anti seismic protection of buildings, bridges and roads.
- Awnings with acoustic improvement
> Textiles
- Adaptive clothes variable shape and tightening capabilities.
Keywords
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Nitinol, Textiles, Panels, Shape control, Damping, Ballistic protection.
Advantages
- Materials by design: Properties mainly governed by alloy composition.
- High force and strain capabilities.
- Life time enhancement of conventional composite structures.
- Damping and energy absorption capabilities.
Testing
- At various temperature from LN2 cryogenic temperature to 300°C:
- Conventional mechanical tests – Tensile & bending…, in static, dynamic, fatigue
- Unconventional specific tests - Tear, vibration, impact, perforation, explosion
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Facilities:
- Specimen instrumented with adapted sensors.
- Fast data acquisition systems.
- Tensile static and dynamic machines.
- High speed actuators.
- Crash tower.
- Bullet ballistic installation.
- Compressed air gun.
Expertise
- Over 3 years of experience in collaboration with ENSAIT Roubaix and industrial partners from Club Tex in the below areas with accompanied characterisation and evaluation tests:
- Present weaving capability of numerous hybrid products
- Further development of various 2D and 3D texture
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Expert:
Jean-Luc Petitniot
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