Victrex and Coriolis Composite Announce Rsearch Results

  Victrex, a world leader in high-performance polyurethane solutions, and Coriolis Composites, a technology specialist in automated Composites, have announced a joint venture to develop a solution for a one-way thermoplastic prepreg belt to increase the productivity of composite components.

   How to reduce the process of temperature at the same time speed up the production of composite components has been one of the main challenges facing the aviation industry through the play to their expertise, vickers and cory Austin composites using specific automatic fiber laying technology, release the vickers AE 250 one-way presoak with potential, bring convenience to aerospace oems and other supply chain cooperation enables the aviation industry to higher efficiency more economic cost of production of composite aircraft parts.

  The scheme's biggest breakthrough is that under the prerequisite of low porosity, the laying speed up to unprecedented levels that will become the aviation industry to realize thermoplastic one-way presoak take advantage, and applies to commercial scale of experiments show that the decisive factors under the condition of the same application, vickers AE 250 than in any other thermoplastic market existing one-way presoak belt has faster speed of laying, huge thermosetting presoak belt, but without the latter at the time spent in the process of cooking curing cost  .

   We will show how the vickers AE 250 thermoplastic unidirectional prepreg belt can be laid out at a faster rate, and how our results, in line with subsequent OOA curing processes, can be significantly improved in terms of performance compared to similar products, said Dr Stuart Green, vickers aerospace market technology manager .

  Of course, apart from the performance improvement of the prepreg belt itself, this scheme is also optimized in AFP process, which saves a lot of energy consumption in wire laying and OOA curing, and significantly shortens the production cycle."

  This makes the wigglesae AE 250 one-way prepreg strip particularly suitable for the production of large-size aerospace structures.""In addition, it is worth mentioning that the experimental results show that the solution effectively maintains the low porosity during curing while greatly improving the placement speed."

 Vickers AE 250 one-way presoak belt developed by vickers is a unique high performance thermoplastic composites one-way presoak belt, its mechanical properties, physical properties and chemical resistance similar to polyether ether ketone (PEEK) is a representative of the poly (aryl ether ketone (PAEK) polymer family, but only 305 ° C, crystallization melting temperature about 40 ° C lower than the latter.

 Specific research results will be officially published in mid-march.