Rapid Innovation and Capability Deployment Using Novel Resin Systems in Composites

New structural and Fire Smoke Toxicity (FST) compliant resin systems that can be used directly on prototype tooling enable the fast manufacturing of early prototypes at an affordable cost. This makes revolutionary concepts feasible without risk to budget and schedule constraints. The combination of liquid resin systems, innovative prototype and low rate tooling solutions and fibre optimization tools like Tailored Fibre Placement unlock a new range of potential for enabling groundbreaking concepts and ideas while being fully rate scalable for aerospace high rate manufacturing. With this combination, one can start testing novel concepts and parts within weeks from design definition at a low cost. This approach contributes to sustainability by virtue of unlocking the potential of revolutionary ideas and concepts while using tooling materials that are fully recyclable in a circular fashion and significantly reduces the energy requirements during transport, storage and processing of the composite material