Glare®
Glare® = GLAss REinforced aluminum: a sandwich material constructed from alternating layers of aluminum and glass fiber with bondfilm. The material was developed jointly with the Delft University of Technology and the National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) in the Netherlands
• Weight reduction: 15 to 30%
• Excellent Fatigue Resistance
• Improved Impact Resistance
• Excellent Fire Resistance Behavior
• Lightning Strike Resistance |
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After 20 years of research in the Netherlands, Fokker Aerostructures has made the material ready for production on an industrial scale. The real breakthrough for Glare came when Airbus selected it in 2001 for the upper fuselage section of the A380. A 750 metres track system has been built for the transport and sorting of the aluminium sheets. The material is hardened at high temperature and pressure in an autoclave, one of the largest ovens in the world. The quality of the internal bonding of the laminates is checked by means of C-scan technology
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Glare® on A380 • Fuselage panels (27)
• Leading edges horizontal/vertical tailplane
• Total area ± 500 m2 |
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Fokker Aerostructures, the Technical University of Delft and NLR have combined their knowledge and Glare expertise in the Fiber Metal Laminate Center of Competence (FMLC) for research and development activities.
www.fmlc.nl
