Boeing 787 Dreamliner

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner was the first aircraft in which the structure was made out of 50% composite materials (Morazain, 2011). One of the drivers for composites is to use an inexpensive base material and a layer over with a thin... 

In 2007 Boeing launched their Boeing 787 Dreamliner in which pre-impregnated carbon fibre is used for polymer-matrix composite structural components [10]. 

Most airframe manufacturers are now adopting ARINC 653. For example, both Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner use ARINC 653. There is a strong trend towards adopting IMA throughout the aerospace industry. 

For example, recently introduced Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus 350 use significant amount of composites as body and structural components to reduce their weight and increase the payload and thus are in great need for good adhesion. 

Figure 7.1. Part of the fuselage of Boeing 787 Dreamliner can serve as an example of a large manmade multiscale composite structure. This polymer composite structure has been designed using the engineering top-bottom methodology within the framework of continumn mechanics. No functional hierarchy exists between the various length scales [169]...

Figure 16.20 Locations of the various material types used in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Most of the construction of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner uses low-density composite materials (i.e., honeycomb structures and continuous carbon fiber-epoxy resin laminates). 

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