Fifty Years of Innovation

　　

　　Competitor, Textile TechNologies Inc., Philadelphia, PA., Had Already Developed A Fan Blade-Shaped Preform.)

　　

　　Ge and Snecma in San Marcos, Texas.)

　　, Ohio and Evry, Farrance). Snecma Merged with Paris-Based Sagem Sa in 2005 to Form Safran.

　　; AZTEX Inc. (WALTHAM, MASS.), Whose Z-Fiber Technolog Had Cut Thousands of FATENERS and Almost $ 100,000 in Assembly Costs from the F/A-18 And Other Milital Ai both of

　　

　　A Leading Tier 2 Supplier of Advanced Composite Components to the Aerospace Industry, USING HIGHLY Engineered Textilecements Designed and Assembled by Aec.

　　, Therebeore, Estabshed Design Rules that Limited How Fast The Thickness of the Blade Could Be TAILORD (E.G., PLY DROPS PER INC) to the loading confs. "

　　AEC Operations

　　

　　Fiber Types and Sizes & Mdash; We Turning Out Preforms for Blades, Fan Cases and Landing-Gear Components.

　　Leap Fan Blade Preforms Use Hexcel (Stamford, Conn.) IM7 48K Fiber & Mdash; Four 12K TOWS LIGHTLY TWISED BY Concordia Fibers (Coventry, R.I.) & MDASH; Which resost.

　　3-D Textile and Preform Modeling Software to OPTIMIZE ITS Selection and Combining of Fiber Types and Tow Sizes to Achieve Desired

　　Prototyping Production Processes

　　Plant 1 and then Ramps Toward Production Rates that, for leap, Will Reach 1,800 shipsets (32,400 Blades) Per Year by 2019.

　　"The PDC Space Can be reconfigured," Coffenberry Points Out, "As Future Parts for the Leap and Other Safran Applications Are TranSition In", "

　　See Photos at Left).

　　3-D Composite Production

　　Weaving Throughh. Safran Will handling, painting, balancing and nondestructive testing (NDT).

　　

　　"PDC for FULL-SCALE Production."

　　FUTURE PRODUCTS FOM Concept to Production

　　And composite Products, processes and Engineering Software, and Performs Equipment Modifications.

　　"WE TRY It out here here we run it on the foot in a full-scale image.

　　vs. Current Open (CUT) Fabric Edges, Said Coffenberry, NOTING that AEC is Evaluating the Device for POTEntial Use in ManuFacturn New Products, Including AIrframe

　　Fiber Placement, which is a proces we believe may be amnable to our 3-d textiles. "

　　Performance. We Alo Perform Material Variability Testing Here as part of question assuralce. "

　　(Troy, Mich.).

　　-Dimensional Truss Network of Pultruded Carbon-Fiber/Epoxy Rods in the Z-Direction.

　　Building The Future On Streangths

　　said coffenberry.

　　-D Composite structure for them. "

　　

　　TechNology to look at shaped Pi Preforms user & rsquo; s stretch-broken carbon fiber, as well as lengthwise-tailored flangee, web and clevis dimensional chaperical.

　　"We are applying leap-comparable technology, but modified to this design," Coffenberry Relates.

　　3-D Composites in the Hot Zone

　　Into the final composite.

　　Full-SCALE GROUD-BASED Engine Test (See "Ceramic-Matrix Composits Heat Up," Under "Editor’s Picks").

　　Growth Beyond Aerospace