Airbus Operations Sl

Luis Miguel Garcia Vázquez

Manuel Recio Melero

Teresa Latorre Plaza

A manufacturing procedure of a composite material part (), with an edge region () destined to be joined to another part by rivets, making a change in the geometry of said edge region () with respect to an initial surface () on the part's external face, comprising the following steps: a) providing a laying-up tool incorporating a modified surface () according to said change in the edge region () geometry; b) providing the composite material plies needed for the laying-up of the part, with the plies () destined for the edge region () of the part affected by the geometric modification being already cut so that they finish as they reach said modified surface (); c) laying-up said plies over said tool and curing the resultant laminate. The invention also refers to a lower skin of an aircraft wing () manufactured according to said procedure.

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Luis Miguel Garcia Vázquez