Highlights

This is a selection of publications from the Structural Power Composites Group. For a full list of publications, please see below.

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Anthony:2022:10.5075/epfl-298799_978-2-9701614-0-0,
author = {Anthony, DB and Greenhalgh, ES and Katafiasz, T and Kucernak, A and Linde, P and Nguyen, S and Qi, G and Razavi, S and Senokos, E and Shaffer, M and Valkova, M},
doi = {10.5075/epfl-298799_978-2-9701614-0-0},
pages = {253--259},
publisher = {SAGE Publications},
title = {Structural supercapacitor composite technology demonstrator},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5075/epfl-298799_978-2-9701614-0-0},
year = {2022}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB - Structural power composites, a class of multifunctional materials, have significantpotential to facilitate lightweighting and accelerate widespread electrification in sustainabletransportation. In civil aircraft, a bank of supercapacitors can provide power to open the doorsin an emergency. Structural power composite fuselage components near the doors could providethis power and eliminate the mass and volume needed for the supercapacitors. To demonstratethis concept, we designed and manufactured a multifunctional component representative of afuselage rib, which powered the opening and closing of a desktop scale composite aircraft door.This paper provides information about structural supercapacitor technology demonstrators,discusses the fabrication of this demonstrator and concludes by providing an insight into thefuture challenges that need to be addressed to realise structural power composite components.
AU - Anthony,DB
AU - Greenhalgh,ES
AU - Katafiasz,T
AU - Kucernak,A
AU - Linde,P
AU - Nguyen,S
AU - Qi,G
AU - Razavi,S
AU - Senokos,E
AU - Shaffer,M
AU - Valkova,M
DO - 10.5075/epfl-298799_978-2-9701614-0-0
EP - 259
PB - SAGE Publications
PY - 2022///
SN - 0021-9983
SP - 253
TI - Structural supercapacitor composite technology demonstrator
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.5075/epfl-298799_978-2-9701614-0-0
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/103202
ER -

Contact

Professor Emile S Greenhalgh
Department of Aeronautics
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ

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e.greenhalgh@imperial.ac.uk