{"id":4593,"date":"2020-10-13T10:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T09:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zal.aero\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4593"},"modified":"2020-10-21T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T12:35:22","slug":"german-canadian-partnership-kick-off-of-the-libio-project-lightweight-bionic-aircraft-interior","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/zal.aero\/en\/news\/german-canadian-partnership-kick-off-of-the-libio-project-lightweight-bionic-aircraft-interior\/","title":{"rendered":"German Canadian Partnership: Kick off of the LiBio Project \u201cLightweight Bionic Aircraft Interior\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international consortium associating Canadian, Austrian, and German partners, wants to enhance the passenger experience and comfort in business jets through the bionic design and functions integration of interior aircraft components.<\/p>\n<p>The international collaboration project LiBio \u201cLightweight Bionic Aircraft Interior\u201d is in line with the Montreal-Hamburg partnership, which brings together Hamburg Aviation, ZAL Center of Applied Aeronautical Research and the Consortium de recherche et d&#8217;innovation en a\u00e9rospatiale au Qu\u00e9bec (CRIAQ), Aero Montr\u00e9al with the aim of building successful collaborative relationships between German and Canadian expertise in collaborative research.<\/p>\n<p>This ambitious project wants to enhance the passenger experience and comfort in business jets through the bionic design and functions integration of interior aircraft components.<\/p>\n<p>An international consortium associating Canadian, Austrian, and German partners, was built to cover the entire supply chain and focuses on combining and designing thermoplastic and metallic bi-material elements for the integration of business aircraft cabin entertainment components such as loudspeakers and screens.<\/p>\n<p>Combining additive manufacturing with topological optimization will lead to the fabrication of a prototype with a unique design and the set-up of a sustainable and avant-garde supply chain in bionic additive manufacturing at the service of this industry.<\/p>\n<p>The alliance is composed of Antemo, AAC, F\/List, iDS Industrial Design Studio, Inocon Technologie, Joanneum Research, Rembrandtin Lack GmbH Nfg. KG and SinusPro on the Austrian side, Bombardier, CRIAQ, FusiA Groupe, Queens University, Solaxis in Canada and Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM and ZAL Zentrum f\u00fcr Angewandte Luftfahrtforschung GmbH in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The funding bodies are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bundes Ministerium<em>\u202ff\u00fcrWirtschaft\u00a0und\u202f<\/em>energie (BMWi) in Germany<\/li>\n<li>\u00d6sterreichische Forschungsf\u00f6rderungs GmbH\u00a0<em>(FFG)\u00a0<\/em>in Austria<\/li>\n<li>Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019\u00e9conomie et de l\u2019Innovation du Qu\u00e9bec (MEI) in Qu\u00e9bec<\/li>\n<li>Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council<em>\u202fof Canada (<\/em>NSERC<em>)\u00a0in Canada<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Text: Hamburg Aviation<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Picture: iDS Industrial Design Studio<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international consortium associating Canadian, Austrian, and German partners, wants to enhance the passenger experience and comfort in business jets through the bionic design and functions integration of interior aircraft components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-4593","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zal.aero\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zal.aero\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zal.aero\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zal.aero\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"https:\/\/zal.aero\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4593\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zal.aero\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}