Historically, most designers of structural composite components for aerospace applications have taken for granted the need for an autoclave cure. Despite the fact that cost and time advantages of ...

Autoclave curing has long been the "gold standard" for aerospace composite parts. Very few processes can match the consistent part quality and high fiber volume of prepreg laminates cured in an ...

Working in partnership with the University of Strathclyde and the Scottish Innovation Centre for Sensor and Imaging Systems (CENSIS), Spirit developed an intelligent heated tool for curing composite ...

Composite components could become more cost-effective and quicker to manufacture following an R&D project underway in Scotland. The initiative – which involves Spirit AeroSystems working in ...

A pair of students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have taken first place at the annual Student Manufacturing Design Competition held by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Through this collaborative work, the team works on real-time cure monitoring of liquid composite molding and autoclave composites manufacturing process, and developing curing simulation with the ...

United Aircraft Corp subsidiary AeroComposite has delivered the first centre wingbox for the Irkut MC-21 aircraft, a new narrowbody design scheduled to complete first flight by the end of the year.

At the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) site in Stade, the DLR Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems operates the largest research autoclave in ...

Manufacturing a range of high value components, from wind turbine blades to car panels, could become significantly more cost-effective and quicker thanks to a ground-breaking R&D project underway in ...

Technological upgrading and global expansion of China’s composite pressure equipment industry CALIFORNIA, CA, UNITED ...

Some of the latest implementations of this approach can be found on autoclaves from ASC Process Systems, Sylmar, Calif. ASC is currently embedding such controllers in many of its production and ...