FIDAMC is a foundation created in 2006 by the Spanish Ministry of Industry (through CDTI, who chairs the entity), the Regional Government of Madrid and EADS N.

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focused on research, development and application of composite materials.

It is a centre mainly addressed to the aerospace R&D activities but widely open to other sectors, having projects in railway, wind energy or automotive sectors.

The current headcount is 40 people mainly skilled engineers and the objective is to reach 60 in 2013.

Main general activities are: improvement of known technologies; analysis, test and demonstration of emerging technologies; way of application of those technologies to specific products; contribute to establish specific Design Principles/Stress methods; propose new lines of research to University, R&D Labs or other centers.

These activities spread over TR4 to 6 in the standard scale of NASA considering the technology maturity levels, therefore will interface with universities and technical research centers for one hand and with industries because of its advanced degree of composite application.

The main areas of interest for FIDAMC are those directly related to advanced composite material technologies, including: Automated lay-up (ATL, Tow Placement, In-situ consolidation); Advanced Composites Liquid Molding (RTM, RFI); Pre-forming / Hot and press forming; Composites Joining and Assembly Technology;