Important announcement

Dear visitor,

Please note that this OpenCourseWare platform will be replaced at the end of 2026 by a new platform (under the same url ocw.tudelft.nl).

Courses and their contents that are currently available the platform will partly be migrated. URL’s for this content will change and content might be unavailable for some time. In addition, some courses will not be available anymore.

If you are linking to specific courses on this platform (for instance for your students), please take timely measures to avoid problems with access. Possible actions are:

  • Download the materials to your local platform (laptop, server)
  • For educators only (including TU Delft lecturers): Contact us at ocw@tudelft.nl and inform us what course you are using in what context (institute, program, period of use, number of students). We will research (in collaboration with the authors of the course) and decide if we will migrate the course, and if yes, can supply you with a new url.

Thank you.

Home Teachers J. Sinke

Ir. Jos Sinke

Head of Delft Aerospace Materials & Structures Laboratory. The laboratory has experience with a wide range of bonding techniques, as well as riveting and other mechanical joining techniques. Extensive knowledge and hardware for chemical pretreatments of the adherents are available.

Numerically controlled milling can be performed for complex shapes, e.g. wind tunnel models (milled aluminium), or moulds for the fabrication of thermoplastic or thermosetting composite components. Composite parts can be formed by: diaphragm forming, deep drawing, vacuum assisted resin transfer moulding, filament winding, rubber press techniques and high temperature techniques.

Any evaluation of new materials or new structural components should include realistic tests with a relevant simulation of actual loading and environment of the structure in service. Experience with requirements and function of structures is available, together with advanced testing methods to simulate realistic loading condition (e.g. flight by flight load history simulation).

Many testing methods are available in the Laboratory: fatigue, with a wide range on fatigue equipment, tensile test, compression test, 3 point bending, 4 points bending, impact tests, stiffness measurement, strain measurement, dynamic characterization of fibre-reinforced composites, heat simulation, material ageing, non destructive testing.

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