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Podcast: COMPOSITES LOUNGE - Das Online Experten Netzwerk
Episode: #134 DLR Systemleichtbau EmpowerAX Demopart, EmpowerAX Days Interview with Xenia Köneke during JEC 2024 (English)
Description: Have you ever considered how the aerospace industry manages to reduce the weight of their planes? Of course the carbon nacelle and the vertical tail comes into the mind, but what about systems, like the breaks of the aircraft?How do you stop a fully loaded Airbus A350 with 200 tons on the runway safely? Breaking systems are extremely heavy therefore new technologies need to be developed and applied on future generation of planes. The task however is extremely challenging, because you cannot just replace material A by B, but need to apply sytemthinking in engineering.Today...