Manufacturing

\label{cha:manufacturing} One of the requirements is that the airplane can be produced at the TU Delft. This means that the dimensions of each component should not be too large and that the production of a subsystem does not require equipments which are not available in the Materials Lab of the TU Delft. The following equipments are available at the TU Delft:

• Autoclaves

  • Hot Bonder

  • heat composite repair system at \(250\,\degree\)

  • Autoclave Scholtz

  • Max size: \(1080\,x\,1700\,mm\)

  • Max temperature: \(350\,\degree\)

  • Max pressure: \(20\,Bar\)

  • Contents: \(4.5\,m^3\)

  • PressClave

• Balances/Weighing

• Common Equipment

• Composite Work Places

  • Paint Shop

  • Laminating Room

• Composites Production Equipment

  • Uniform cutting machine

  • typical applications: cutting of (composite) test samples

  • max cutting length: \(28\,cm\)

  • max area of material: \(28\,x\,47\,cm\)

  • automatic feed control (0.1 to 5 \(mm/s\))

  • wet cutting (limited heating of material)

  • Carat Wet Diamond Saw

  • diamond saw with laser, max length 1m

  • Rinco Handheld Ultrasonic Welder

  • Gerber Cutting Machine

  • MMU1

  • Filament Winding Machine

  • applications: wet & dry winding of composite parts

  • max production: \(2.1\,m\); max mould length \(3.0\,m\)

  • fibre tension-er with 4 spools

• Destructive Testing Tools

• Fatigue Machines

• Fumehoods

• Impact Equipment

• Machine Tools

• NDT/Microscopy

  • Cs-can

  • Fokker Bond Tester

  • Epoch III Ultra-soon Tester

  • Eddycurrent Nortec 19e

  • Ultrasonic Pulse Echo Scanner

  • Ultrasonic Resonance Instrument

  • Endoscope

  • Leica Optic Micro Camera

  • Reverser Microscope

  • Conofocal Microscope

  • JEOL Electron Microscope

  • Polish Machine

• Ovens

• largest dimensions are \(44\,x47\,x520\,cm\) at \(T_{max}\) \(1300\,\degree\)

• Presses

  • Rivet Stock

  • \(50\,kN\) force

  • DASML/ Joos Press 1000KN

  • heated flat platen press

  • typical application: consolidation of thermoplastic composite panels

  • \(F_{max}\): \(1000\,kN\)

  • press area:60x60cm

  • \(T_{max}\): \(450\,\degree\)

  • Alfamatic pneumatic C-form Press

  • 200 kN

  • max stroke = 315\(mm\)

  • Fontijne 1000kN press

  • heated plate press

  • typical application: consolidation of thermoplastics

  • \(F_{max}\)= \(1000\,kN\)

  • press area: \(500\,x\,500\,mm\)

  • \(T_{max}\)= \(400\,\degree\)

  • \(4000\,kN\) Fontijne Press

  • for metal sheet forming and rubber forming of composites

  • press area: \(240\,x\,80\,cm\)

  • height: 80 \(cm\)

• Pretreatment/Aging/Exposure

  • Pretreatment Line

  • Salt Spray Cabinet

  • Blasting Cabinet Syam 961-1

  • Blasting Cabinet Pulsar 3 Clem

  • Env. Chamber Weiss WK11 340

  • Env. Chamber Weiss SB11/300/40

  • Environment Chamber CTS 1000L

• Strain, Displacement and Camera’s

• Tensile & Compression Benches

• Thermal Heating

• Vacuum Pumps