To speed layup and still offer good design flexibility, SABIC and Airborne borrowed an idea from the postal system when developing the ply layup process for thermoplastic composite tapes. Multiple ...

Thermoplastics have been valued for their inherent corrosion resistance for more than half a century. Extruded and thermoformed easily, thermoplastic shapes can be welded together in complex ...

PlyMatch™ uses augmented reality to show the live combined images of actual and target ply outlines and fibre orientation details on a monitor, so that the two can be matched by the operator. PlyMatch ...

The standard square beams are produced from graphite and PAN carbon fibres using CompoTech’s innovative automated, robot assisted filament placement technique, which places continuous fibres axially ...

Various joining methods are being developed to help manufacturers of composite products save weight, time and cost If a company can reduce the time and materials used to stick multiple composite ...

This paper reviews two publications of the authors. The first relates to the classification of manufacturing porosity of a ceramic matrix composite material DRL-XT and the second to the quantification ...