Automated Composite Manufacturing
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 601
Special Issue Editor
Interests: composite structures: analysis, design and testing; composite materials; automated manufacturing of composites: automated fiber placement (AFP); aircraft structures
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the increasing use of composites in many important engineering applications, automated composite manufacturing techniques have become essential and are attracting much interest from both academia and industry. Automation is an inevitable part of advanced composite manufacturing techniques, promising faster, more efficient, more reliable, and repeatable manufacturing of structures made out of composites while reducing waste of materials and cost. Many large structures such as aircraft fuselages, wind turbine blades, automotive panels, etc. are now made using automated composite manufacturing techniques.
The objective of this Special Issue is to provide a venue for sharing and publication on the latest development in automated composite manufacturing including, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Automated fiber placement (AFP); thermoset and thermoplastic composites;
- Automated tape laying (ATL);
- Tailored fiber placement (TFP);
- Fiber patch placement (FPP);
- Additive manufacturing of composites;
- In situ consolidation of thermoplastic composites;
- Thermoforming of composites;
- 3D and 4D printing of composites;
- Fiber steering and variable stiffness structures;
- Process simulation and optimization;
- Equipment and materials developments for composite automation;
- Collaborative robots;
- Online and offline inspection techniques for automated composite manufacturing.
We invite researchers around the world to contribute their original research or review articles to this special issue.
Prof. Farjad Shadmehri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Automated composite manufacturing
- Automated fiber placement (AFP)
- Automated tape laying (ATL)
- Additive manufacturing of composites
- 3D and 4D printing of composites
- Process simulation and optimization of automated composite manufacturing techniques
- Equipment and materials developments for composite automation
- Inspection of composite manufacturing techniques
