Functional Compliance of Multifunctional Bondlines with Disbond Arrest and Health Monitoring Features for Safe and Efficient Composite Joints

Julian Steinmetz is a research associate in the group of Prof. Michael Sinapius at the TU Braunschweig Institute of Mechanics and Adaptronics. His focus area is multifunctional structures. As a doctoral student, he conducted research on multifunctional bondlines in close cooperation with the research groups of Prof. Hühne from the German Aerospace Centre in Braunschweig and Prof. Dietzel from the TU Braunschweig Institute of Microtechnology. Julian Steinmetz obtained his Bachelor's and Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the TU Braunschweig. He was a visiting student in the research groups of Prof. Jonathan Cooper at the University of Bristol and Profs. Tsuyoshi Inoue and Kentaro Takagi at the Nagoya University.

• Introduction.- Novel Multifunctional Bondline for Efficient and Safe Joints in Composite Aircraft.- Approaches to a Functionally Compliant Multifunctional Bondline.- Functional Compliance of Bondlines with Multifunctional Disbond Arrest Feature.- Towards the Implementation of the Multifunctional Bondline in Composite Aircraft.- Extending the Functional Compliance Concept based on the Multifunctional Bondline.- Conclusions and Future Prospects.