AERoBOND: Large-Scale Composite Manufacturing

NASA Langley Research Center has an improved method for making composite structures. Industrial composite manufacturing is primarily accomplished through three methods: co-cure, co-bond, and secondary bond processes. Co-cure produces predictable structures and joint properties but is costly and challenging to implement on large, complex structures. Co-bond and secondary bond processes have greater applicability to complex structures but produce unpredictable material interfaces and properties. The AERoBOND technology presents a method for manufacturing composites at scale with the reliability of co-cure in a bonded assembly process.