Demonstration of energy harvesting by tubular TEG-enabled structures for wireless Structural Heath Monitoring
Latest News! The final demonstration of the technologies developed within the HARVEST project was just performed successfully with a fully integrated demonstrator. B&T Composites manufactured the final project tubular demonstrators using filament winding and 3R and nanomodified 3R resin developed by CIDETEC.
HARVEST project & Main outcomes associated with the nanomodified 3R resin development presented in ImagineNano Conference
The 6th edition of one of Europe's largest Nanoscience and Nanotechnology events, ImagineNano, was held in BILBAO (Basque Country, Spain) from 23-25 November 2021. Six conferences were held in parallel covering the hottest scientific trends and HARVEST was presented at the
Unused Aircraft Energy HARVESTing for wireless Structural Health Monitoring
The final demonstration of the technologies developed within HARVEST project was just performed successfully with a fully integrated demonstrator. AIRTIFICIAL manufactured the final project demonstrator, representative of a wing leading edge, designed by SONACA. It includes a Thermo Electrical Generator (TEG: device
Final HARVEST project Meeting (M36) on-line
On 29 September 2021, the HARVEST project held its last online (live) project meeting where the technical progress of the last 6 months was discussed, and work was organised for the completion of the project in November. As usual, during the
Main results associated with the modelling activities in laminate presented in AIAS Conference
The Italian Association of Machine Design (AIAS) has managed to organise this year also an online conference to discuss national research developments in mechanical design, experimental methods, simulation strategies, advanced materials, and processes. In one of the sessions dedicated to composite
HARVEST PROJECT SHOWCASED AT DEFEA EXHIBITION ATHENS
DEFEA (Defense Exhibition Athens) took place from 13 to 15 July 2021 in Athens. It was a high-level international exhibition, where leading Greek and international companies presented land, sea, air and homeland security defense systems. Hosted and assisted by the
Promising functionalities of the HARVEST laminated composite!
One of the many objectives of WP5 was to evaluate the repair efficiency of the 3R epoxy matrix used for the manufacture of the HARVEST composite. The 3R epoxy matrix has the particularity of being able to be reprocessed, repaired and
M30 meeting of HARVEST project
HARVEST held its penultimate project meeting for month 30 on 11 February 2021. The meeting took place online, given the current situation, and brought together all HARVEST partners. The project meetings allow partners to have an overview of what other colleagues
New Year, new step towards TEG validation for aircraft Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
WP7 aims to design and manufacture both leading edge and tubular aeronautical demonstrators for HARVEST. The first manufacturing trials of the leading edge demonstrator: which includes a Thermo-Electrical Generator (TEG) device, has just been successfully performed at the end of 2020
6th Executive boarding meeting
The 6th Executive Boarding meeting of the HARVEST project was held last November 2020 by teleconference. At this meeting each work package leader showed the progress made to date and tried to identify any possible delays and slippages in tasks