Automated Fiber Placement of helicopter sideshells

Automated Fiber Placement enables highly-automated manufacturing of large scale, geometrically complex parts from carbon fiber reinforced plastics. The sideshell demonstrator was realized on the Coriolis C1 AFP machine at Fraunhofer IGCV in Augsburg, Germany. It will be assembled in the airframe of the RACER highspeed helicopter demonstrator, which is developed within the CleanSky2 research program.
In close collaboration with international partners, Fraunhofer developed an innovative manufacturing process for complexly shaped shell parts made from carbon fiber reinforced plastics and honeycomb sandwich cores, based on the Automated Fiber Placement layup process. The assessment of the ecological and economical viability of the developed process yielded saving potentials compared to conventional hand layup.
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Not that long ago, this was highly proprietary and state-of-the-art.

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Perfect

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The bigger question is; When will they develop CNC "carbon roving weaving" wherein two or arms pass a shuttle roll full of thermal set carbon ribbon material back and forth around a foam core to create COMPLETE CONTINUOUSLY woven structures?

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Bag side looks much more better than a tool side (male tool).

[@geoffbutler10]

Hand layup would still be faster for a part like this. That AFP was moving super slow in the core details.

[@MomedicsChannel]

Not about speed, it’s about consistency.

[@geoffbutler10]

Depends on the production rate. For sure AFP tape can be more weight optimized. Usually you can get away with fewer fabric plies in the min gauge acreage areas though. So the weight savings might not be that much.

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Sehr cool😍

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I think huge sheets of carbon fiber would be much stronger and easier to built also faster.

[@mer9706]

Not stronger but absolutely faster and easier/cheaper.

[@niio111]

This works best on panels that have varying strength requirements, as when the perimeter needs more material and less in the center. It is less expensive to do it all the same automated way than to try to manually build up edges on a large sheet of cloth.

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