Accelerated Insertion of Materials: Manufacturing and Producibility of Hat Stiffened Structure

Abstract

HAT STIFFENED PANEL PROCESSING AND PAST CHALLENGES: * Hat side wall/cap ballooning where the sidewalls are not flat * Upper and lower radius thin-out (fiber movement and resin starvation) * Hat miss-location (hat to hat spacing) * Curved or snaking stiffener shape * Stiffener sink where the skin under the stiffener is of less thickness than blueprint * Other skin thickness variations between under the hat and adjacent to the hat (resin rich or resin poor areas) * Adhesive migration if adhesive is used in the fillet area. * Ply waviness around the radii * Fillet porosity (hat to skin intersection) * Skin out-of-plane waviness at the stiffener flange edges * Resin rich areas at the stiffener termination if a net molded stiffener is used * Trimming errors if the stiffener termination is trimmed after molding * The typical array of flat panel manufacturing defects including porosity and delaminations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 17, 2004
Accession Number
ADA511844

Entities

People

  • John Griffith
  • Keith Rupel
  • Pete E. George

Organizations

  • Boeing

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adhesives
  • Composite Materials
  • Creep Tests
  • Dynamic Tests
  • Engineered Materials
  • Engineering
  • Fabrication
  • Geometry
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Transfer
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Porosity
  • Process Engineering
  • Simulations
  • Thickness

Readers

  • Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Dynamics.
  • Reinforced Composite Materials

Technology Areas

  • Space