Projet TRACES (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Information Science and Engineering
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In 2019, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) identified in-flight icing as a priority 1 issue for large aeroplanes with the aggregated European Risk Classification Scheme score being amongst the highest of all safety issues. In-flight icing can occur when an aircraft flies through clouds of supercooled droplets, namely, drops of liquid water with a temperature below the freezing point, which freezes upon impact. Aircraft icing can lead to a reduction of visibility, damage due to ice shedding, blockage of probes and static vents, reduced flight performance, engine power loss, etc. In addition to safety concerns, inservice icing events can lead to major disruption of air operation and aircraft maintenance. The more frequent occurrence of severe thunderstorms due to climate change results in more in-flight accidents also at cruising altitudes, with more than 100 engine failures in recent years. Recently, icing-related issues are being observed in newer, more efficient aircraft engines due to the lower temperature of operation. The main goal of TRACES EJD is to provide high-level training in the field of inflight icing to deliver a new generation of high achieving Early Stage Researchers in the diverse disciplines necessary for mastering the complexity of ice accretion and its mitigation in aircraft and aeroengines. This goal will be achieved by a unique combination of hands-on research training, non-academic placements at major EU aviation industries and courses and workshops on scientific and complementary so-called soft skills facilitated by the academic/non-academic composition of the consortium. Innovative Ice Detection and Ice Protection Systems based on disruptive technologies will be designed by the ESRs during Project Working Group. EASA will provide training on certification procedure and together with major industries in the field will assess the ESRs projects during a team Design & Certify exercise.

Mots clés : in flight icing aircraft rotorcraft digital certification ice particles ice properties

Participants :
- Airbus operations (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Office national d’études et de recherches aérospatiales (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 848080.8 €
- Institut polytechnique de Paris (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Safran aircraft engines (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Eurac Research (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Safran aerosystems (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (France) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- École polytechnique (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 282693.6 €
- Dassault aviation (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Airbus Helicopters (France) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Airbus (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- General Electric (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- École polytechnique de Milan (Italie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1556625.6 €
- Université technique Carolo-Wilhelmina de Brunswick (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 521078.4 €
- Université de technologie de Darmstadt (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 781617.6 €
- Leonardo (Italy) (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €