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Sigmatex to co-develop 3D woven textile composites

24 May '16

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Sigmatex, developer and manufacturer of carbon fibre textiles for composite material has joined hands with UK based aerospace companies to drive development of 3D woven textile composites in the aerospace industry under the project 'Breakthrough Aerospace Materials' (BAM).

The BAM project looks to advance the manufacturing techniques and simulation of 3D textiles in the UK and to make them commercially available to the aerospace industry. Currently, the use of 3D textile composites is held back by a lack of analysis techniques that are able to accurately predict weave architectures and the resulting processing and structural performance.

The project includes structural lightweighting, reduced manufacturing and inherent assembly costs. Suitable components and manufacturing processes will be developed for the simulation of 3D textiles.

UK based companies involved in developing the project includes BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, ESI, MSC Software, Antich and Sons, M Wright and Sons, Teledyne CML Composites alonf with three UK 3D woven technology leading universities Nottingham, Manchester and Bristol. (NA)

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