Additive Manufacturing for Advanced Composite Materials
Additive manufacturing enables topological complexity and huge design freedom, and I am researching 3D printed composites will leave traditional composite core designs behind. Traditional carbon fiber 'sandwich' composites are limited to plates and simple forms, while their core materials are completely uniform in their topology - usually a grid or honeycomb hexagonal structure. However, I’m manufacturing cores which are manufactured on-demand with tailorable topologies, variable densities, and are made of advanced ballistic nylon carbon fiber composites. With additive manufacturing, we can print our carbon fiber structures with far more geometric freedom - leaving simple plate geometries behind.
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