FEDERAL and INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

The Centre participates in solving the most important problems within the framework of a number of scientific and technical programmes and projects.

In the context of the Programme of Fundamental and Applied Research and Developments under the supervision of Russian Federation Ministry of Science and Technologies, the Programme National Technological Base and the Programme of the Defence Industry Reorganization and Conversion the Centre is working on the widening of the use of the materials and technologies for aviation, aerospace and defence, chemical, oil and gas production, automotive, metallurgy, ceramic, electronic, semiconductor and jewellery industries, for medical equipment, railway transport, etc.

Scientific principles and methods of manufacturing and certification for the whole class of complex-shaped highly loaded stiffened integral structures from carbon-filled plastics for the aircrafts Su-33, Be-40, Tu-34, Tu-334 have been developed within the framework of the Federal Programme on the Development of Civil Aviation Equipment up to 2000.
The structures of this type have improved efficiency from the viewpoint of mass-cost-load criterion and improved manufacturability resulted from the simultaneous curing of all structure components and the formation of permanent joints between them in the process of molding.

Composite sandwich shells with unique dimensional stability, complex theoretical contour of bearing surface and framework tubular elements forming a parabolic aerial have become the result of the Center participation in the International Program SPEKTR- RADIOASTRON on the development of large space radio telescope.
This work has been done by the Centre in cooperation with Lavochkin Research and Production Enterprise on request of the Astrospace Centre of Lebedev Institute of Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences).
In September 1998 these products passed a full complex of ground tests in Research Centre ESTEC (Holland) under the aegis of European Space Agency (ESA).

Within the framework of the International project ATLAS the precision dimensionally stable carbon filled plastic components for the transfer radiation tracker (TRT) of Large Hadron Collider LHC (CERN, Switzerland) are being developed to order of Russian Institute of High-Energy Physics.

As regards the programme BANKIR the Centre has developed in co-operation with Lavochkin Research and Production Enterprise a large-sized dimensionally stable composite platform for the accommodation of precision receiving and transmitting equipment for the communication satellite KUPON.

The Centre`s participation in the Branch Programme on the Development of Highly Maneuverable Aircraft of New Generation with Adaptable Sweptforward Wing resulted in the development in co-operation with Sukhoi design bureau, All-Russia Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM) and Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute (TSAGI) of large-sized thick wing panels from high-modulus carbon-filled plastic for the aircraft Su-47 BERKUT.

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