Advanced manufacturing - automated fiber placement

An automated fiber placement machine places carbon-fiber tows - narrow bands of continuous fiber - on a tool, layer by layer in different directions, to lay up a laminated skin panel.
Video: MTorres

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How do they glue the fibers? What kind of adhesive and how to cure it? Is it something like heat activated adhesive?

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It's pretty good method currently using in F-35 wings skin but how this machine can spread fibers continuously ?

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