Addressing key challenges in composite AM for maritime parts
While wood is still used in modern shipbuilding, many other materials have since made their appearance, including metals, polymers, and composites. Practical fiber-placement limitations with continuous-fiber composites, resolution in machined composites, challenges accurately predicting performance of discontinuous-fiber composites lead to lower repeatability and reproducibility (R&R) values and higher costs limiting usage of these materials in applications where they could be quite useful. To solve these challenges, 9T Labs developed a new Additive Fusion Technology.
