International Conference on Aviation Engineering at INRTU

On July 4, INRTU hosted the opening of the XVII International Conference on Aviation Engineering. The forum was organized with the support of the Russian engineering union. The purpose of the event is to summarize research results, exchange practical experience in the aviation technology field, and identify new areas of Research and Development work.

The participants of the event were the representatives of Russian universities from St. Petersburg, Kazan, Perm, and Komsomolsk-on-Amur; Belarusian-Russian University; Harbin Polytechnic University and Binzhou University (Republic of China).

Mikhail Kornyakov, rector of INRTU and organizing committee chairman noticed:

“We were pleased to get a response from Russian and foreign colleagues. INRTU aircraft engineers aim to emphasize forward-looking projects and find like-minded people for mutual work during the conference.

Currently the aviation industry is facing great challenges - increasing the production and competitiveness of domestic aircraft. I wish all forum participants fruitful work, efficient dialogue with colleagues.”

Kirill Balla, Deputy Chief Technologist of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, in his speech emphasized that INRTU is a strategic partner of the enterprise. The university has contributed to the production of the Russian MS-21 aircraft, and trains competent professionals for the plant.

“I am sure that the conference will give good results, accelerate the search for ideas of import substitution”, Kirill Balla added.

Within the plenary meeting, representatives of Russian universities, business and scientific institutions presented their developments and discussed the prospects for the development of domestic aircraft engineering.

Andrey Pashkov, director of the Institute of Aircraft Engineering and Transport of INRTU, opened the meeting with overview report about digital manufacturing technologies for manufacturing large-sized, high-precision and unique products. This project is run within State University support program ‘Priority 2020” and includes 3 areas. Two of them are focused on the needs of the aviation industry- these are complex automated technologies and equipment for shaping, straightening and surface hardening, as well as technologies for the production and repair of composite structures for various purposes.

"The long-term experience of the university is concentrated on the first direction, work on which has been carried out since the 80s. The peculiarity of dimensional parts is not only in size, but also in high requirements for shape accuracy and resource characteristics. Traditional methods of shaping and straightening parts – bending on presses and processing with a shot do not always allow you to achieve the desired result. The project we are implementing provides for a comprehensive solution using automated equipment and digital design methods," -  Andrey Pashkov reported.

One of the institute's developments is a unique installation for shaping and straightening by rolling (UFP-1). In 2021, the equipment was introduced into the production of PJSC "Il" - Aviastar (Ulyanovsk)

Another direction has been developing at INRTU since 2010 (Government Decree of the Russian Federation No. 218). It is connected with producing MS-21 passenger aircraft, the airframe of which partially consists of composite materials.

Andrey Savilov, director of the Laboratory for High-Performance Machining Technology, described that the work of university employees is aimed at increasing machining productivity, reducing labor costs and tools costs in order to increase competitiveness.

Andrey Podshivalov, CEO of the Yekaterinburg company “Nova-ENGINEERING” focused on the issues of computer engineering in production and education. He presented large-scale projects implemented by the company, announced courses on industry 4.0 for university teachers.

Gleb Turichin, Rector of St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University, presented developments in the interests of the aviation and rocket and space industries. The university has created technological installations for direct laser cultivation of the “ILIST” series, which have been put into mass production, and are being actively implemented at domestic enterprises.

Konstantin Fayzulin, Deputy Head of the Department of Scientific Research of Kazan National Research Technical University named after A. N. Tupolev, shared the experience of cooperation of the university with aircraft manufacturing enterprises.

Alexander Berman, Chief Researcher of the V.M. Matrosov Institute of System Dynamics and Control Theory SB RAS, and Igor Bezukladnikov, Director of the Center for Information Technology and Robotics of Perm Polytechnic University, made presentations at the plenary session.

At the end of the plenary session, an excursion to the Irkutsk Aviation Plant was organized for the conference participants.

It is worth mentioning, that the forum program includes the work of the sections "Mechanical Engineering", "Materials Science and Additive Technologies", "Aircraft Engineering and operation of aviation equipment", "Dynamics of machines".

Also the guests are provided with Excursions to the architectural and ethnographic museum "Taltsy" and the village of Listvyanka on Lake Baikal.

The results of the Conference on Aviation Engineering will be summed up on July 7.

Photos made by Arseniy Chekmarev.