Lockheed Martin Corporation

Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Nathaniel Dew

Jonathan K Garhart

Eric Christopher Schenck

Kishore Kumar Tenneti

William P Fallon, Jr

Andrew M Brookhart

Cody Michael Ture

Ryan Patry

Matthew P Harrigan

The present disclosure is directed, in certain embodiments, a component of a mechanical apparatus. The component includes a cast body with an initial structure formed by a mold and at least one feature deposited on the cast body using a solid state additive manufacturing process, such that in combination the initial structure and the at least one feature form a complete structure of the component.

Housing and method of preparing same using a hybrid casting-additive manufacturing process

According to an aspect, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a cutter, a spooling mechanism and a computing system. The computing system is configured to drive the cutter to form a channel in the ply based on the stored instrumentation layout. The computing system is additionally configured to drive the spooling mechanism to insert the instrumentation into the formed channel based on the stored instrumentation layout.

Instrumentation composite integration system

A core-stiffed composite structure includes a plurality of bonded layers forming the core-stiffened composite structure, a fiber optic conductor embedded between two of the plurality of bonded layers, the fiber optic conductor including a terminal end, and a protective box embedded in the core-stiffened composite structure and bonded to one or more of the plurality of bonded layers, wherein the terminal end of the fiber optic conductor projects into the protective box.

Fiber optic protective box for core-stiffened composite structures

A structural health monitoring system includes a first component and a second component associated at a joint. At least one sensor is embedded within the joint to monitor a health of at least one of the first component, the second component, and the joint.

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Nathaniel Dew