Aerospace Composites
The use of manufacturing aerospace composites is growing rapidly, led by major airframe manufactures for both commercial and military aviation. Advanced aerospace composites have gained wide acceptance to replace metal, primarily for weight reduction. Performace benefits of the use of composites include lowering fuel costs, increasing flight time, speed, and distance.
Composiflex Supports
For aerospace composite customers, Composiflex offers:
- AS9100 Quality Management System and Nadcap Coposites accreditation
- OEM and MIL-SPEC material, processing, and test specifications for prepreg-autoclave and other materials and processes
- In-house tooling design and manufacturing capabilties
- Vertically integrated manufacturing processes
Composiflex’s comperhensive program support includes:
- Material property testing to support FEA
- Airload analysis
- Verification testing
- Mechanical load and processed material testing
- Program management
Our facilities include clean rooms, environmental monitoring, and certified equipment to support stringent aerospace requirements.
Applications
The applications that Composiflex supports include:
- Aerodynamic composite cowlings and fairings
- Honeycomb cored panels and foam cored panels
- Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) components
- Composite ducts and tubes
- Avionics racks and enclosures
- A wide variety of manned aircraft composite components
- Radomes and antennas
- Aircraft system components and subassemblies
- Composite aerostructures
- Payloads and pods
