Thermoplastic advanced composites are of great interest for meeting the needs of new challenges in the aerospace industry. Thermoplastics offer a number of important advantages over thermosets like better toughness and damage tolerance, rapid fabrication cycle and the possibility of assembling substructures by welding. Progress has been made by INTA in setting-up the autoclave forming technologies for the manufacturing of thermoplastic composite parts. The standard autoclaving and vacuum bagging techniques, which are well developed for the production of thermoset composite components, have been adapted to the high-temperature processing of thermoplastics. Some demonstrators based on actual aeronautical skin substructures have been fabricated. Present paper summarizes the results obtained in this work.


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    Title :

    Autoclave forming of thermoplastic composite parts


    Additional title:

    Autoklavformung von Teilen aus thermoplastischen Verbundwerkstoffen


    Contributors:
    Fernandez, I. (author) / Blas, F. (author) / Frövel, M. (author)


    Publication date :

    2001


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 7 Bilder, 4 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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