Infusion

ATL/AFP 9 Jan 2015

Fabrication methods (2015)

There are numerous methods for fabricating composite components. Selection of a method for a particular part, therefore, will depend on the materials, the part design and end-use or application. Here's a guide to selection.

Autoclave 6 Jan 2015

Benzoxazines for OOA tooling

Can infusible formulations of this newer resin system produce aerospace-capable tools?

Carbon Fibers 6 Jan 2015

Back-country boating: Carbon fiber Adirondack pack canoe

Placid Boatworks (Lake Placid, NY, US) makes modern composite versions of classic, but relatively heavy, Adirondack pack canoes, using vacuum-infused carbon fiber. Here's how.

Sustainability 6 Jan 2015

Dark knights: Sleek trimarans surveil the seas

Epoxy-infused patrol boats outperform less nimble and more costly conventional naval craft.

Sustainability 29 Nov 2014

Buoyant buildings: Modular design relies on cored composites

Arquitectura en el Agua’s (AEEA, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands) architects and engineers convert for metal to composites for their floating modular structures for marinas, harbors, restaurants, hotels and leisure centers.

Weaving 1 Nov 2014

FACC: Aerospace infusion pioneer

Although it’s “new” to aerospace, liquid resin infusion has been the focus of R&D at FACC (Ried im Innkreis) since 2001. “The issue,” said FACC’s aerostructures product development director Hermann Filsegger, “is in getting 100 percent wetout with no voids in a large part with this much complexity.” That’s not, by any means, an easy task.

Autoclave 1 Nov 2014

FACC AG: Aerocomposites Powerhouse

This pragmatic Austria-based innovator is pursuing lofty goals in an aerocomposites future full of opportunity.

Out of Autoclave 1 Nov 2014

PMI foam core outperforms honeycomb in infused nose landing gear doors

The results of Airbus (Toulouse, France) subsidiary Composite Technology Centre GmbH (CTC, Stade, Germany) studies in 2013 to find more productive but less costly methods of fabricating carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sandwich constructions.