Description: The goal of this special issue is to present the latest findings and promote further research in the areas of advanced materials in aerospace engineering. Nowadays, two related imperatives are influencing the design of aeronautical structures:
1. Requirements for more efficient aircraft (use of advanced lightweight materials, reduction of life cycle costs and particularly operating costs),
2. Requirements to reduce the influence of aircraft on environmental, including the decreasing of gas pollution and noise.

Flexible Manufacture of Lightweight Frame Structures, 2008

Edited by: Klaus Weinert, Jürgen Fleischer, A. Erman Tekkaya, Michael Zäh, and Marco Schikorra

Online since: April 2008

Description: The world market’s increasing demands for lightweight constructions as a means of reducing fuel consumption in transportation systems, together with shrinking materials resources, are becoming factors of major importance. These aspects are further underlined by current efforts aimed at reducing the greenhouse-gas emissions caused by production processes. In this context, considerate use of energy-intensive materials, such as aluminum, plays a major role.