Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 94 Issue 9

Guest editorial: The 11th EASN international conference special issue: “emerging technologies & innovative concepts in aviation and space”

Spyros Pantelakis, Andreas Strohmayer, Liberata Guadagno

A preliminary framework for managing airport capacity and demand from an economic perspective

Álvaro Rodríguez-Sanz, Luis Rubio-Andrada

Airport capacity constraints lead to operational congestion and delays, which have become major threats to the aviation industry. They impose large costs on airlines and their…

Potentials of prognostics and health management for polymer electrolyte fuel cells in aviation applications

Kathrin Ebner, Lily Koops

A reliable and safe operation of fuel cells (FCs) is imperative for their application in aviation, especially within the main powertrain. Moreover, performance and lifetime…

Regulatory framework on the UAM operational concepts of the ASSURED-UAM project

Anna Maria Mazur, Jens ten Thije, Joost Vreeken, Henk Hesselink, Bartosz Dziugieł, Sylwester Wyka, Adam Liberacki, Teresa Idzikowska, Anna Dorota Stanczyk, Agata Utracka, Piotr Ginter, Sandra Czupryn, Michele Giannuzzi, Sandra Melo, Adriana Witkowska-Konieczny, Vittorio Di Vito, Aniello Menichino

The purpose of this paper is to study the overall framework in which the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) deployment is expected to be implemented. Another aim of the study is to give a…

Computational evaluations of emissions indexes released by the STRATOFLY air-breathing combined propulsive system

Guido Saccone, Ali Can Ispir, Bayindir Huseyin Saracoglu, Luigi Cutrone, Marco Marini

The purpose of this study is to provide the description of a computational methodology to model the combined propulsive systems of hydrogen propelled air-breathing scramjet…

Design advancements for an integrated mission management system for small air transport vehicles in the COAST project

Vittorio Di Vito, Piotr Grzybowski, Tomasz Rogalski, Piotr Maslowski

This paper aims to describe the activities that are ongoing, in the Cost Optimized Avionics SysTem (COAST) project, to design an integrated mission management system (IIMS) to be…

Enabling SAT single pilot operations: tactical separation system design advancements in the COAST project

Vittorio Di Vito, Giulia Torrano, Giovanni Cerasuolo, Michele Ferrucci

This paper aims to describe the advancements of the activities that have been carried out, in the Cost-Optimized Avionics SysTem (COAST) project, to complete the design and…

How much workload is workload? A human neurophysiological and affective-cognitive performance measurement methodology for ATCOs

María Zamarreño Suárez, Rosa María Arnaldo Valdés, Francisco Pérez Moreno, Raquel Delgado-Aguilera Jurado, Patricia María López de Frutos, Víctor Fernando Gómez Comendador

Air traffic controllers (ATCOs) play a fundamental role in the safe, orderly and efficient management of air traffic. In the interests of improving safety, it would be beneficial…

Dynamic model to characterise sectors using machine learning techniques

Francisco Pérez Moreno, Víctor Fernando Gómez Comendador, Raquel Delgado-Aguilera Jurado, María Zamarreño Suárez, Dominik Janisch, Rosa María Arnaldo Valdes

The purpose of this paper is to set out a methodology for characterising the complexity of air traffic control (ATC) sectors based on individual operations. This machine learning…

Safety performance functions to predict separation minima infringements in en-route airspace

Raquel Delgado-Aguilera Jurado, Victor Fernando Gómez Comendador, María Zamarreño Suárez, Francisco Pérez Moreno, Christian Eduardo Verdonk Gallego, Rosa María Arnaldo Valdes

The purpose of this study is to establish a systematic framework to characterise the safety of air routes, in terms of separation minima infringements (SMIs) between en-route…

A holistic assessment of a stiffened panel production using a novel thermoplastic material and implementing the induction welding process

Christos Katsiropoulos, Spyros Pantelakis, Francesca Felline, Giuseppe Buccoliero, Silvio Pappada

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the feasibility to produce a novel aircraft full stiffened panel using entirely a new hybrid thermoplastic composite material allowing…

Simulation of the mechanical behavior of self-healing composite materials

Evgenia Madia, Konstantinos Tserpes, Panagiota Polydoropoulou, Spyros Pantelakis

The purpose of this study is the investigation of self-healing materials containing encapsulated healing agents embedded in a polymer matrix with dispersed catalysts. In recent…