Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP) is an embroidery-based tow-steering process that enables complete control over fiber placement and directionality in a composite preform. During the process, continuous ...

The Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) facility for manufacturing fibre-reinforced thermoplastic components at our institute was supported by the Ministry of FInance and Economics of Baden-Württemberg ...

With ultrasonic fibre placement, the challenge was to succeed in tacking a tape onto an underlying thick stack of plies at high speed, without slowing down the process and thus making it ineffective.