Center for Composites Manufacturing Science, Reliability, and MaintainabilityTechnology

摘要

The ARO/URI Center of Excellence was established to address the fundamentalissues involved in the manufacturing science, reliability, and maintainability of composite structures for future Army systems. The program strongly emphasized building in quality, long life, predictable and reliable performance, durability, and lower life-cycle costs, with a minimum reliance on repair or rejection of poor quality after manufacturing. Research was initially conducted in the following areas: (1) Cure characterization and monitoring; (2) On-line intelligent nondestructive evaluation for in-process control; (3) Process simulation; (4) Computer-aided manufacturing for filament winding; (5) Structure-property relationships of textile structural composites; (6) Mechanics of thick-section laminates; (7) Structural performance and durability; and (8) Integrated engineering for durable structures. The material forms examined included thick-section laminates and textile woven forms; both thermoset and thermoplastic-matrix materials were investigated.