Course: Introduction to Composites Manufacturing

Overview

Learn about composite manufacturing, including materials, manufacturing processes, and repair methods. Composite manufacturing is ready to meet the demands of the modern world, including groundbreaking vehicles and aeronautical designs, which require ever lighter and stronger materials. Composite manufacturing is commonly associated with carbon fiber processes, composite manufacturing combines two materials to form a polymer with properties that would be hard to produce with a single material alone. The resulting composites are durable and light. This course teaches the fundamentals of composite manufacturing, including fiber and resin-based processes, and shows ways to detect and repair defects.

1. Composites

2. Fundamentals Of Composites Manufacturing

3. What is a composite?

4. History of composites

5. Where composites are used?

6. Materials

7. Fiber reinforcements

8. Reinforcement Fiber: Terminology, Types, and Formats

9. Matrix: Resins

10. Sandwich structures and cores

11. Manufacturing Methods

12. Hand Lay-Up

13. Open Molding

14. Vacuum-Assisted Resin Transfer Molding

15. Automated Fiber Placement

16. Filament Winding

17. Pultrusion (coming soon)

18. Inspection Methods and NDT

19. NDT (Non-Destructive Testing)

20. Inspection type versus NDT Method

21. Inspection methods

22. Visual inspection

23. Tap testing

24. Ultrasonic testing

25. Thermography

26. Radiographic Testing

27. Acoustic Emission

28. Acousto-Ultrasonic

29. Shearography

30. Damage Types

31. Damages

32. Manufacturing and defects/damages

33. In-Service Damages

34. Damage and Defect Description

35. Composite Structure Repair Procedure

36. Repair Methods

37. The need for repair

38. Repairs

39. Repairs category