Novel Tooling Technique Cuts Cost and Time of Manufacturing Parts
Imagine being able to mold and manufacture parts the size of a bedroom in just two days. A system for composite fabrication, based on a material that has been nicknamed “engineered quicksand,” provides such fast and inexpensive tooling to both the aerospace and transportation industries.
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A simple pultrusion technique is being adapted to lend its simplicity, efficiency, and cost savings to the production of complex composite structures for high-performance military and commercial hardware. With its automated composite shaping technique, KaZaK Composites (Woburn, MA) is manufacturing net-shape structures to the specifications of the user — whether ...
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The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) successfully executed several phases of a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop an advanced multi-axis braiding/filament winding work cell. The technology work cell has proven its ability to cut costs and improve the efficiency of manufacturing processes that scientists use to ...
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The current method of producing three- dimensional shapes for Navy ship hulls and other structures consists of manual thermalforming by skilled labor that uses oxyacetylene torches and water hoses. The process is very costly, labor-intensive, inaccurate, and slow.
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