Automated Dynamics, which manufactures advanced fiber placed composite structures and high performance composite processing equipment, has developed a new method to automate incorporation of lighting strike protection layers into composite structures.This new patented approach significantly lowers production costs over existing methods and improves production time. The innovation incorporates the metallic lightning strike materials using traditional equipment and techniques for fiber placement and tape laying, and is compatible with both thermoset and thermoplastic resin systems.The metallic mesh is embedded into pre-impregnated tape, offering the mesh support during placement and assuring full consolidation into the composite matrix. Automated Dynamics notes that this new technology can be easily incorporated into composite structures they produce, and their automation equipment can also be easily augmented to enable this capability.
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