Top flight form Lublin

Intelligent, extremely tough and ultralight; these are the anticipated characteristics of the materials that will be used to build planes of the future.

At Lublin University of Technology in eastern Poland, researchers are working on making those materials a reality of today.

A research project in the provincial university has recently acquired sophisticated equipment, including 3-D scanners, thermo-vision cameras and temperature chambers.

Marcin Knec´, a mechanical engineer working on the project believes this technology places Lublin at the very heart of aerospace research: “Data from these tests can be used by industrial partners to adapt their production. They can use our results to reduce the time needed to produce some aerospace elements, for instance.

“That would mean less time in assembling new planes, making them less expensive. And, eventually, that could mean cheaper air fares.”

So what are these tools and how are they enhancing the accuracy of mechanical tests?”