This is what the AMICO project has achieved, which has a budget of 8 million euros, half of which financed by the Ministry of University and Research. ENEA participates in the project as a partner of IMAST (lead partner), the Italian technological district for the engineering of composite, polymeric materials and structures which also involved the partners FCA Italy, MBDA, Dompé Farmaceutici, Cnr, CRF, CIRA, Turin Polytechnic and Federico II University of Naples. In addition to IMAST, the University of Rome "La Sapienza", the University of Trento and Aerosoft Spa participated in the project as partners.
"The AMICO project represents a unique case, in which leading companies in totally different sectors, from the main Italian manufacturers in the automotive and aeronautical and missile sectors to one of the largest pharmaceutical companies, collaborate with a continuous exchange of know-how between them. and with the most prestigious universities and research institutions, giving life to a transversal and multidisciplinary project ”, comments Eva Milella, president of the IMAST district.
The production solutions implemented in the project use alternative construction methods to conventional production processes and respond to the need to generate increasingly versatile and functional materials. Furthermore, with a view to circular economy, technologies have been used for the recycling of processing scraps and residues of thermoplastic systems, in particular based on carbon fiber, coming from the finishing activities of the pieces during production.
ENEA participated in the activities of the aeronautical sector, developing both the recovery and enhancement of waste materials from Additive Manufacturing procedures and process diagnostics using optical techniques, for an initial validation of the manufactured samples.
“AMICO represented for ENEA a moment of comparison for the experimentation of our processes on the new generation materials of the aeronautical composites sector. In addition to the application of the developed recovery processes, the project has allowed us to experiment with new ways of using recovered carbon fibers (RCF), both as starting materials for ceramic materials and through the creation of filaments for 3d printing loaded ”, underlines Sergio Galvagno, ENEA researcher at the Nanomaterials and Devices Laboratory and project manager for the Agency. “Furthermore - he adds - the application of optical techniques for process diagnostics has led to the development of different experimental set-ups applicable to the different materials examined”.
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