Today's smart structures are using extensively carbon and glass fiber composite materials, especially for lightweight structures used in aerospace.
Smart Material's MFC product line is used increasingly as the active component in composite materials, unlocking new potential and applications for structural control (morphing), vibration control and structural health monitoring.
Integrating the MFC with composite structures requires experience and know how, which Smart Material posesses and offers as an engineering service to our customers. We will work with you to optimize your design in terms of weight and stiffness and best integration of the MFC to meet your requirements. We are capable to build carbon and glass fiber samples for rapid prototyping at our factory.
Our services for designing and manufacturing carbon and glass fiber composites include:
Design studies and calculation
- Composite design and analytical calculation based on the Classical Laminate Theory
- Structural optimisation using Finite Element Analysis
- Integration and simulation of actuator-structure interactions
Available shop equipment
- NC milling machine
- well equipped mechanical workshop
- freezer cabinet
- different vacuum pumps and cure cells
- tensile test machine
Tooling and composite manufacturing process
- NC manufacturing of complex moulds on our customers needs
- Fabrication of glass or carbon fiber reinforced composites using hand lamination or prepeg technology in combination with vacuum bagging
- Precise contour cutting and surface finishing
Sensor and Actuator integration and structural test
- Special technologies for applying or embedding of MFC sensors & actuators with isostatic pressures
- integration of wiring and electronic components or interfaces into the composite part
- structural tests of the static and dynamic composite behaviourÂ
Interested in engineering services? Please contact us with your project or development ideas or tasks.