Airbus Operations Gmbh

Oliver Bullinger

Ichwan Zuardy

Pierre C Zahlen

M Ichwan Zuardy

Clemens Bockenheimer

Claudio Vultaggio

The disclosure relates to a composite panel member for an airframe of an aircraft or spacecraft, the composite panel member having a laminated or sandwich structure including: a first outer layer extending over a first side of the panel member; a second outer layer extending over a second side of the panel member; a core layer between the first and second outer layers; and at least one support element configured as an electrical conductor and provided within the core layer between the first and second outer layers. In this regard, the at least one support element extends within the core layer substantially parallel to the first and second outer layers.

Panel member for an airframe

A system for monitoring a fiber-reinforced composite component in production or in service. The system includes a composite component having reinforcing fibers which are encompassed by a matrix material; at least one optical fiber arranged to extend in a continuous path over a monitoring area of the composite component for contact with the matrix material; a signal generator configured to transmit an optical signal along the at least one optical fiber; and a detector device configured to detect scattering, and in particular backscattering, of the optical signal transmitted along the at least one optical fiber.

System for monitoring flow of a matrix material in a molding tool using a scattering optical signal transmitted along at least one optical fiber during production of a component

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Stade, Germany

Oliver Bullinger