P 2009-01 National material database for advanced composites

Project owner:        Norwegian Composite Centere

Partners:                 Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)

Funding:                  Own resources, Innovation Norway

Main objectives:              

Composite materials are increasingly used in sectors as offshore-, aerospace-, building- and car industry. Composite materials are anisotropic and have a complex set of material properties in the same product. It is expensive and time consuming to get material- and process data on these products. Existing material data is often unavailable because there is a lack of systematisation and systems for saving the data for later use. A lot of the smaller businesses do not have resources to do analysis and there is not any exchange of the material data between the industries. It is therefore a good opportunity to build a national and centralized database on composite materials where the Norwegian enterprises can shear and exchange data on these complex materials.

The main goal for this project is to develop a national database on advanced composite materials in Norway. This database will be developed and maid accessible through Norwegian Composite Centre. This database will give Norwegian enterprises benefits on easier access to material data, faster approach to material solutions and lower the cost because the material data is reused in many projects.

NSK will develop the database in close cooperation with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), witch has similar challenges on saving their material data in a systematic and reusable form.  

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