9T Labs and Arkema firmaları tarafından geliştirilen “Aditive Fusion Technology (AFT) and Digital Composite Production” hakkındaki bilgiler aşağıda yer almaktadır.

9T Labs, the Swiss system provider for digital composite production, and Arkema,

one of the leading providers for high performance polymers, make metal substitution a reality.

9TLabs/Zürich and Arkema Inc. recently manufactured a helicopter door hinge to demonstrate the potential

of the material/process combination for metal substitution in small aerospace structural parts.

Kepstan^®/Arkema is a Polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) CoPolymer and is in the family of Poly Aryl Ether Ketone (PAEK) polymers.

PEKK is synthesized in various formulations with individually unique properties.

The PEKK formulations are expressed by the ratio of Terephthaloyl (T) to Isophthaloyl (I) moieties used during the synthesis that created the polymer.

The T/I ratio affects PEKK’s melt point glass transition temperature and crystallization kinetics.Arkema

 

Combination of carbon fiber composite materials based on Arkema’s high-performance Kepstan 7000 PEKK thermoplastic polymer and

9T Labs’ recently introduced Red Series additive manufacturing solution. Composites World

Two things are important to produce a lightweight structural part: Optimal fiber layup and excellent consolidation.

The Additive Fusion Technology (AFT) allows the automated manufacturing of optimized part designs coming

from the Fibrify software by first using the Build Module to produce a fiber layup.