Seven ways to build a composite part
Every composite process solves the same two jobs: get the fibre into shape and get resin around it and cure it. The seven common methods differ in where and how they do those jobs, and that decides what each is good at. The book's own ratings put automated fibre/tape placement at the highest finished-part cost of the seven.
Predict · at 2:58 in the video
So, of these seven, which one makes the most expensive parts?
Automated fibre and tape placement. A robot or gantry lays pre-impregnated tows or tape onto a tool, course by course. Production rate: mid to high.
Automated Fiber Placement: Status, Challenges, and Evolution, Ramy Harik & Alex Brasington.
- Chapter 1
Simulations in this lesson are our own. Where the numbers are invented to show a mechanism, the video says so on screen.
