The Boeing Company

Alex Rubin

Randall Dow Wilkerson

James Rodney Fox

Terry D Richardson

Christopher L Morris

Thomas C Beney

A fabrication method of forming a thermoplastic composite laminate material with tailored and varying thickness in a continuous process. This process utilizes automated equipment or hand lay-up to collate parts or components into a multi-layer stack. Each stack contains all plies, including ply build-up areas, tacked in the proper location to maintain orientation and location. The consolidation tooling contains all necessary part features and is coordinated to the customized multiple ply stacks to form a single integrated thermoplastic composite laminate potentially having areas of differing thickness from these multiple ply stacks.

Fabrication process for thermoplastic composite parts

A system for utilizing a computer to analyze damage to a structure. The system includes a damage disposition program for determining an appropriate repair procedure for repairing the damage to the structure. Additionally, the system includes a processor for executing the damage disposition program. A predefined set of damage class determination rules are utilized by the damage disposition program to determine a damage class.

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St. Louis, MO, United States of America

Alex Rubin