IMPROVING MECHANICAL PROPERTIES WITH AFP-BASED FIBER ARCHITECTURE

Julian Schuster, Lazarula Chatzigeorgiou, Klaus Drechsler

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Abstract

Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) is a well-known advanced manufacturing method for production of high-performance composite structures using precise layup of unidirectional slit-tapes to ensure mechanical and weight efficiency. This approach will provide a new design tool to composite engineers, enabling to deviate from the classical way of constant angle orientations for composite design towards an optimization of fiber deposition design harmonized with best manufacturing opportunities. Therefore, Iterations between design, analysis and manufacturing can be dramatically reduced with improved part quality, respecting manufacturing oriented fiber courses at part dimensioning process.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationManufacturing
EditorsAnastasios P. Vassilopoulos, Veronique Michaud
PublisherComposite Construction Laboratory (CCLab), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Pages1060-1067
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9782970161400
StatePublished - 2022
Event20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability, ECCM 2022 - Lausanne, Switzerland
Duration: 26 Jun 202230 Jun 2022

Publication series

NameECCM 2022 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability
Volume2

Conference

Conference20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability, ECCM 2022
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityLausanne
Period26/06/2230/06/22

Keywords

  • AFP
  • Automated Fiber Placement
  • gap management
  • surface cover ratio
  • tool path optimization

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