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Sep 6, 20211 min read
CDCQ installs AFP capability to help local businesses develop expertise
CDCQ has acquired the AFP robotic cell developed by Effman with the help of the FANUC robot and AFP head from Addcomposites.
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Aug 29, 20211 min read
Course: Composites Materials
Learn about the constituents of composites, including fibers, matrix, and sandwich cores, and their terminology
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Aug 29, 20211 min read
Course: Composites Manufacturing Methods
Overview Learn about composite manufacturing methods most commonly used in the industry. Composite manufacturing is ready to meet the...
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Aug 29, 20213 min read
Continuous Fiber 3D Printing
3D printing enables the manufacturing process to be automated since the entire process is driven by software
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Aug 25, 20211 min read
Course: Composites Structure Maintenance
Learn about composite structure maintenance starting with testing, understanding the damages and their repair methods.
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Aug 25, 20211 min read
Course: Introduction to Composites Manufacturing
Overview Learn about composite manufacturing, including materials, manufacturing processes, and repair methods. Composite manufacturing...
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Aug 8, 20212 min read
Course: Composites Basics
Overview This brief course on composites is divided into 4 fundamental blogs covering a history of composites, introduction to...
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Aug 5, 20213 min read
Hand layup: understanding the manual process
The actual methods and techniques used by workers to manipulate flat sheets of composite material into shape during layup are described
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Aug 5, 20214 min read
Sandwich Structures and Cores
Description of Sandwich Structures Basics Sandwich construction is a structural panel concept that consists in its simplest form of two...
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Jul 30, 20217 min read
What are the Applications of Composite Materials Today?
Composites are used in a wide variety of markets, including aerospace, architecture, automotive, energy, infrastructure, marine,...
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Jul 29, 20214 min read
History of composites
Composites have played an important role throughout human history, from housing early civilizations to enabling future innovations. No matte
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Jul 21, 20214 min read
Build your own Automated Fiber Placement system
Key components for building AFP system are described and sources are outlined
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Jul 7, 20214 min read
How to convert a used robot into an AFP system
Why it's possible now? Automated composites manufacturing has been regarded as reserved only for the large industrial players due to the...
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Jun 21, 20214 min read
Past, Present, and Future of Composites Additive Manufacturing
1960–1980: Automated Tape Laying (ATL) The 1960s were a Golden Age for composites manufacturing. The ongoing Space Race between the USA...
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Jun 15, 20211 min read
AFP-XS lands in the US
The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX) boasts one of the top-rated engineering programs in the US, and one of the research groups...
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