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Paul Murdy, Jack Dolson, David Miller, Scott Hughes and Ryan Beach
This work outlines the opportunities for producing novel hybrid structures for marine energy systems by leveraging the benefits of combining additive and composite manufacturing techniques, and the potential this has for rapid prototyping.
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Touraj Farsadi, Majid Ahmadi, Melin Sahin, Hamed Haddad Khodaparast, Altan Kayran and Michael I. Friswell
In the field of aerospace engineering, the design and manufacturing of high aspect ratio composite wings has become a focal point of innovation and efficiency. These long, slender wings, constructed with advanced materials such as carbon fiber and employ...
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Anton Hadar, Andrei-Daniel Voicu, Florin Baciu, Daniel Vlasceanu, Daniela-Ioana Tudose and Stefan-Dan Pastrama
This paper describes the transition towards a composite structure, with the same overall aerodynamic characteristics, for a tail rotor blade of an IAR330 helicopter. The newly proposed structure of the composite blade is made of a carbon-roving spar embe...
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Nathan Eskue
This paper provides a detailed review of a digital thread for composite aerospace components. The current state of the digital thread continues to progress and at an ever-accelerating rate due to advancements in supporting technologies such as AI, data c...
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Yonglin Chen, Junming Zhang, Zefu Li, Huliang Zhang, Jiping Chen, Weidong Yang, Tao Yu, Weiping Liu and Yan Li
Lightweight fiber-reinforced composite structures have been applied in aerospace for decades. Their mechanical properties are crucial for the safety of aircraft and mainly depend on manufacturing technologies such as autoclave, resin transfer molding and...
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Fangyong Niu, Yang Li, Chenchen Song, Xinrui Yan, Ziao Zhang, Guangyi Ma and Dongjiang Wu
With the increasing demand for the high agility and fast response of high-level equipment in the aerospace and energy power fields, it is increasingly urgent to improve the performance of the high-temperature and wear resistance of the corresponding high...
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Myungjun Kim and Yongha Kim
Carbon/carbon (C/C) composite materials are widely used in aerospace structures operating in high temperature environments based on their high performance thermal and mechanical properties. The C/C composite material has a yarn architecture in which fibe...
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Yuanzhen Cai, Milad Bazli, Asanka P. Basnayake, Martin Veidt and Michael T. Heitzmann
Ocean energy is an underutilized renewable energy source compared with hydropower and wind power. Therefore, the development of economical and efficient wave energy converters (WECs) is important and crucial for offshore power generation. The mooring ten...
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Manuel Alejandro Trejo-Letechipia, David Arturo Rodriguez-Sanchez, Reyna Berenice González-González, Alberto Isaac Perez-Sanpablo, Ana María Arizmendi-Morquecho, Tania E. Lara-Ceniceros, Jose Bonilla-Cruz and Jorge Armando Cortes-Ramirez
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Xishuang Jing, Siyu Chen, Jiuzhi An, Chengyang Zhang and Fubao Xie
This study was to solve the mandrel demolding problem after curing the composite component with complex structure. In this paper, a reusable thermoplastic mandrel with heating softening characteristics was developed by resin transfer molding (RTM). The g...
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Francesco Di Caprio, Valerio Acanfora, Stefania Franchitti, Andrea Sellitto and Aniello Riccio
This paper introduces a numerical tool developed for the design and optimization of axial-symmetrical hybrid composite/metal structures. It is assumed that the defined structures are produced by means of two different processes: Additive Layer Manufactur...
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Mauricio Torres, Saúl Piedra, Saúl Ledesma, Carlos A. Escalante-Velázquez and Giovanni Angelucci
This work describes the technological and scientific efforts on designing, manufacturing and testing validation for high performance-low cost composite structures for Light Sport Aircrafts (LSA). A Mexican initiative to conceive, manufacture and assembly...
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Farjad Shadmehri and Suong Van Hoa
Since its advent in the 1970s, digital image correlation (DIC) applications have been rapidly growing in different engineering fields including composite material testing and analysis. DIC combined with a stereo camera system offers full-field measuremen...
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Omar El Hawary, Luca Boccarusso, Martin P. Ansell, Massimo Durante and Fulvio Pinto
Environmental emergency awareness has been gaining momentum in recent years in the composite manufacturing industry, with a new generation of composite materials minimizing their harmful environmental impacts by employing more sustainable manufacturing p...
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Stefano Piacquadio, Dominik Pridöhl, Nils Henkel, Rasmus Bergström, Alessandro Zamprotta, Athanasios Dafnis and Kai-Uwe Schröder
Economic viability of small launch vehicles, i.e., microlaunchers, is impaired by several factors, one of which is a higher dry to wet mass ratio as compared to conventional size launchers. Although reusability may reduce launch cost, it can drive dry an...
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Christos V. Katsiropoulos and Spiros G. Pantelakis
In the present work, a novel holistic component and process optimization index is introduced. The Index is aimed to provide a decision support tool for the optimization of aircraft composite components and manufacturing processes as well as for the selec...
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Junhua Wang, Junfei Xu, Yan Lu, Tancheng Xie, Jianjun Peng, Junliang Chen and Yanwei Xu
Laser?arc composite additive manufacturing holds significant potential for a wide range of industrial applications, and the control of morphological dimensions in the deposited layer is a critical aspect of this technology. The width and height dimension...
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Alfredo Liverani, Antonio Bacciaglia, Eugenio Nisini and Alessandro Ceruti
Industrial engineering applications often require manufacturing large components in composite materials to obtain light structures; however, moulds are expensive, especially when manufacturing a limited batch of parts. On the one hand, when traditional a...
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Michael John Lowde, Henry George Arthur Peters, Ruadan Geraghty, Jasper Graham-Jones, Richard Pemberton and John Summerscales
Fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) matrix composites are widely used in large marine structures, and in wind turbines where blade lengths are now over 100 m. Composites are the material of choice for small vessels due to ease of manufacture, high hull girder...
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Le Liu, Sofiya Aydinyan, Tatevik Minasyan and Irina Hussainova
One of the main limitations for widespread additive manufacturing is availability and processability of the precursor materials feedstock. For the first time, this study reports the development of a ?pomegranate-like? structured TiB2-Si ceramic-metalloid...
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