Acronym: ADMIRABLE

Coordinator: NAVANTIA S.A.

Partners: Fincantieri Spa, Fraunhofer Iapt, Fidamc, Gradel Sarl, Istituto Italiano Della Saldatura Associazione, Micromag 2000, Cy.R.I.C Cyprus Research And Innovation Center Ltd, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Duration: 2024 – 2027

Funding: EUROPEAN DEFENCE FUND (EDF) 2023

Objective: The project’s expected outcome is to increase the operational capabilities of naval vessels, making them invisible while improving their detection capabilities and being safer, more efficient, and sustainable. To this end, the ADMIRABLE project is paving the way for the production of next-generation defensive ships, exploring the breakthrough possibilities offered by advanced manufacturing technologies and the most promising advanced composite materials.
Summarizing the project challenge, it will focus on simultaneously improving the performance of the most sensitive issues for future navies: reducing size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) while improving transparency in electromagnetic bands (visible, infrared, radar), fire and temperature resistance and ballistic protection. Such objectives will be achieved by designing new lightweight, multifunctional materials for key parts of the ship. It is expected that the new materials obtained from the ADMIRABLE proposal will be able to substantially meet the various High-Level Requirements (HLR) defined by EU navies and their shipyards.

Acronym: ZSKAR

Coordinator: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Partners: Korporacja Wschód Sp. z o. o.

Duration: 2012 – 2016

Funding: NCBR – PBS 1

Objective:The project aimed to develop and test in laboratory and maritime conditions a model of an integrated action control system (ZSKA) produced with the use of innovative Rapid Manufacturing technologies (rapid prototyping technology) and a specialized software model that integrates this system with the gyrostabilized marine monitoring system and other navigation devices of the ship.

Normal scale image of the object (worker), view from the thermographic camera and image from the thermographic camera at maximum magnification.

Acronym: Replika

Coordinator: Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Partners: Central Forensic Laboratory of the Police – Research Institute (CLKP); company Stanimex Sp.j.

Duration: 2011 – 2014

Funding: NCBR – nr O ROB 0019 01/ID 19/1

Objective: As a result of the project, the technology of duplicating forensic traces was created, allowing for their exact reconstruction, which is the project’s goal. The obtained replication method will be used primarily to make models of shells and projectiles, but it can also be used to replicate other traces with similar parameters (e.g. mechanoscopic). Preserving the optical parameters of the surface of the duplicated traces (e.g. metallic gloss) will facilitate the work of experts and enable automated searches in the databases of weapons identification systems operating in most European Union countries.

It is expected that this technology can also be used in proficiency testing through inter-laboratory comparisons. The multiplied research material can be analyzed simultaneously in several laboratories.