Patent ID: 8324537

Claim:
A method for controlling humidity absorption in an article installed on an aircraft, the article being made of composite material including a plurality of plies of material consolidated through application of pressure and heating, in which each ply of material is made by a resin matrix reinforced with fibre material, wherein the method comprises the following steps: providing heating means and temperature sensing means embedded in the composite material, which are respectively placed in at least one interface zone between the material plies; providing control means connected to the heating means and temperature sensing means; and activating the heating means to heat the article so as to induce a humidity loss, wherein the article is heated according to periodic heating cycles, wherein the heating cycles are programmed for keeping absorbed humidity below a fixed threshold, wherein absorbed humidity is calculated based on a diffusion law for the humidity within the composite material and based on data of environmental temperature and relative humidity, the data being determined with respect to operating conditions of the aircraft.