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Bookmark or Share- Manufacturing the MFFD thermoplastic composite fuselageFrom 2017-2019, Airbus Research & Technology (Bremen, Germany), as the MFFD project leader, issued 13 CS2 calls for proposal CfP07–CfP11 for work topics such as automated assembly plant for a thermoplastic fuselage, micromechanics of welded joints, novel tooling, multifunctional pick-and-place/welding end effectors, new test methods and ...
- Inside a thermoplastic composites hotbed | CompositesWorldThe largest thermoplastic structure manufactured at the Daher-Socata Nantes plant is this 120 inch by 120 inch (3,048 mm by 3,058 mm) cockpit floor for the Airbus Military A400M transport plane. Its 250 thermoplastic composite parts are assembled with metal fasteners.
- The potential for thermoplastic composite nacellesManten notes another large achievement is the progress made in welding parts with integrated LSP. As explained in the 2018 article “Welding thermoplastic composites,” as the induction coil moves along the weld line, it induces eddy currents in the electrically conductive carbon fiber laminate, generating heat and melting the thermoplastic ...
- Wing of Tomorrow ribs: One-shot, thermoplastic, OOA consolidationThermoplastic composite ribs are often manufactured via stamp forming for small aircraft, Offringa says. However, GKN Aerospace ruled out traditional stamp forming as an option for the WOT rib because commercial aircraft wings, even for narrow-bodies like the WOT demonstrator, are placed under very high compression and tension loads.
- Recycled thermoplastic composites for productionRecyclability has been a long-promised benefit of using thermoplastic composites (TPCs). But it has yet to be used commercially on a large scale. Materials supplier TenCate Advanced Composites and the ThermoPlastic composites Research Center (TPRC) partnered with Tier 1 manufacturer GKN Fokker to demonstrate such a process in 2016. The team ...
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