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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2021
Spirit Aerosystems, Inc., Wichita, KS (US);
Rahbar Nasserrafi, Andover, KS (US);
Kerrick Robert Dando, Wichita, KS (US);
Gerald Eugene Hicks, Jr., Wichita, KS (US);
Theodore Joseph Eilert, Wichita, KS (US);
Shawn Douglas Vierthaler, Wichita, KS (US);
Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., Wichita, KS (US);
Abstract
A method of manufacturing metal matrix composite (MMC) parts, including the steps of applying a metallic sheath around a bundle of MMC laminates, heating the bundle of MMC laminates in the metallic sheath at a curing or fusing temperature to consolidate the bundle of MMC laminates into a single cured or fused part, and then cooling the cured or fused part. The bundle of MMC laminates may be formed by removing surface contamination from the dry reinforcement fibers, creating a plurality of individual MMC laminates by plating dry reinforcement fibers with electroless nickel, and/or electrodeposited nickel or cobalt, and stacking each of the plurality of individual MMC laminates into a bundle. Autocatalytic and/or electroplating may be used as the primary means to incorporate fiber reinforcement into the metal matrix composite by covering and bonding fiber reinforcement into MMC laminates/plies and/or 3-D woven parts.