AUTOMATED JOINING AND ASSEMBLY OF THERMOPLASTIC FUSELAGE STRUCTURES FOR THE AIRCRAFT FACTORY OF TOMORROW

This paper gives an overview of the objectives of the MultiFAL project – a sub-project of Large Passenger Aircraft (LPA) within the framework of the European research program Clean Sky 2 funded by the EU`s Horizon 2020 program. The MultiFAL project partners will demonstrate the technological and economic feasibility of highly automated joining and assembly processes for thermoplastic aircraft structures. Therefore, a full-scale demonstrator for the assembly and joining of two thermoplastic aircraft half shells will be built up at the Fraunhofer IFAM facilities in Stade. This project has received funding from the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 945583. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and the Clean Sky 2 JU members other than the Union. The results, opinions, conclusions, etc. presented in this work are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily represent the position of the JU; the JU is not responsible for any use made of the information contained herein