Effects of Defects in Advanced Thermoplastic Integrated Structures via Automated Toolless Manufacturing
Abstract
The challenge of balancing design, delivery, and sustainment of complex systems with aggressiveschedules and rapidly changing operational and threat environments have to be overcome withemerging and agile methodologies and technologies. In order to ensure continued U.S.technological superiority, efforts are made to transform engineering practices to digitalengineering, incorporating technological innovations into an integrated, digital, model-basedapproach. With the advancement of sensor technologies and manipulators, industrial robots arenow capable of performing non-routine complex functions such as labor-intensive advancedcomposite layup that typically require meticulous, trained technicians. Rapid tooling conceptswith additive manufacturing technologies coupled with automated fiber placement (AFP) have thepotential to significantly decrease lead-time and production cost with increased material yield andproduction rates due to fewer interruptions and improved consistency.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jun 17, 2020
- Source ID
- N000142012616
Entities
People
- Waruna Seneviratne
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- Wichita State University