Addcomposites Learn

Automated composites manufacturing, from the tow up.

Free video courses on how the machines really work: the physics, the defects, the planning and the parts. No account needed; every lesson is free.

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46 LESSONS · 8 CHAPTERS · 3 H 5 MIN

Automated Fiber Placement

How AFP really works: the machine, the defects, path planning, inspection, cure and certification. Every lesson runs a real simulation, shows the maths and stops to ask you a question.

Built on Automated Fiber Placement: Status, Challenges, and Evolution by Ramy Harik & Alex Brasington, with permission.

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42 LESSONS · 8 CHAPTERS · 99 MIN SO FAR

Filament Winding

Winding patterns and how they close, geodesic and non-geodesic paths on domes, sizing a pressure vessel, the machine and its axes, tension and resin control, and testing what you wound. Built by our engineers, with the classic references as further reading.

Our own curriculum; the classic books as further reading.

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50 LESSONS · 9 CHAPTERS · 100 MIN SO FAR

Large Format Additive Manufacturing

Printing metre-scale parts and tools from pellets: the extruder and the bead, layer time and the weld, fibre and warp, machines and machining, and printed tooling. Built by our engineers from the open research literature.

Our own curriculum; the research papers as further reading.