Characterization of braided composite aircraft structural components

With the increasing usage of composite in civil aviation, the industry is looking for affordable manufacturing techniques to produce high quality structural components. To achieve this goal, one approach is to use automatized textile techniques to quickly assemble fibre architectures tailored to the application. In this project, braiding is used to construct fuselage frame fibre preforms with variable geometry. The student will participate in the production of the braids using a 144 carrier braiding machine and a robotized gantry system at the Saint-Hyacinthe (Qc) laboratory. The student will also help characterize the meso-structure of the braid (Montreal Lab) in order to guide the design of optimal structures.

Faculty Supervisor:

Louis Laberge Lebel

Student:

SIVASAKTHYA MOHAN

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Discipline:

Aerospace studies

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Globalink