{"id":15972,"date":"2020-07-09T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T08:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.compositestoday.com\/?p=15972"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T08:03:05","slug":"tohoku-university-nec-composite-material-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.compositestoday.com\/2020\/07\/tohoku-university-nec-composite-material-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Tohoku University and NEC Team up to Accelerate Composite Material Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Engineering, Graduate School of Information Sciences and NEC Corporation are jointly working on a materials integration system that would accelerate the development of carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP<\/a>) for the aerospace<\/a> sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japan currently produces a wide range of composite materials but require a lot of time and expense to develop. This new R&D, conducted under the Japanese government’s Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP), aims to reduce the cost and time needed to develop composite materials for next-generation aircraft by up to 50 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To achieve this, the team will create an integrated system capable of digitally developing CFRP for aircraft structures using simulation tools developed by Tohoku University, and NEC’s SX-Aurora TSUBASA vector supercomputer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specifically, by implementing simulation codes on a supercomputer that can analyse mechanical responses from a molecular level to the aircraft’s wing and fuselage, the processes of material selection and design can be performed at high speed and at multiple scales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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