IMDEA-materials has been granted its first European project

The collaborative project MAAXIMUS (More Affordable Aircraft through eXtended, Integrated and Mature nUmerical Sizing) presented to the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union has been granted. IMDEA-materials is one of the research centers in a consortium of 58 partners from 18 countries made up of of aircraft manufacturers, material behaviour specialists, software and computer hardware developers, computational mechanics experts and test centres, both from industry and academia. The approximate budget of the project is 70 M€.