Webinar: Creating a Digital Thread for Surface Preparation of Composites
Manufacturing environments create numerous opportunities for contamination, process variance, and poor performance in surface preparation steps. These risk factors impact bond strength, durability, reliability, and coating success. Knowing what contaminates are threatening composite surfaces and...
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Webinar: How to Control Trace Contaminants to Prevent Composite Bond Failure
Manufacturing environments create numerous opportunities for contamination. Knowing what contaminants are threatening composite bond strength and reliability, as well as knowing where they are coming from (such as mold release left on a surface), is crucial to putting process controls in place to...
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Eureka Moments: Exposing Improper Abrasion Materials
From Confusion to Eureka! In the video below, part of our Eureka Moments video series, we delve into what happened when a customer who does aircraft repair used standard and completely approved abrasion materials, and yet they got some surprising outcomes when we took a closer look at what was...
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Webinar: Uncovering Non-Obvious Variables in Surface Preparation Processes for Bonding and Coating of Composites
Surface preparation for aerospace and automotive bonding and coating operations are still largely manual processes which frequently include some combination of solvent wiping and abrasion. These processes can be very effective if implemented with proper process control feedbacks.
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Webinar: Strategies to Control and Optimize Plasma Treatment in Composite Manufacturing
With the recent advent of practical atmospheric pressure plasma treatment systems, pre-treatment of composite materials via plasma to improve the reliability of composite/composite adhesive bonds has been receiving a lot of attention. Understanding the relationship between plasma/material...
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Materials Library: Atmospheric Plasma Treatment on Composite
Welcome to the Brighton Science Materials Library series. In this series, we use the Surface Analyst to demonstrate how the surface quality of a material changes based on common surface preparation processes. We also give typical contact angle measurements before and after processing to give a...
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Materials Library: IPA Wipe & Sandpaper Abrasion on Composite
Welcome to the Brighton Science Materials Library series. In this series, we use the Surface Analyst to demonstrate how the surface quality of a material changes based on common surface preparation processes. We also give typical contact angle measurements before and after processing to give a...
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Webinar: Development and Control of Surface Treatments for Adhesive Bonding of Composites
Updated April 2023 Successful adhesive bonding requires precise control of the physical and chemical properties of a vanishingly small volume of material: the first few molecular layers that surround the interface.
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Webinar: Measuring Surface Energy in Manufacturing and Repair of Composites to Assure Quality of Bonded Interfaces
This interactive tutorial provides a comprehensive look at common industry practices, including typical surface preparation methods for composites and an overview of the basic scientific principles involved in measuring surface energy and how it relates to material performance in manufacturing and...
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Webinar: Understanding and Controlling the Bond Surface in Manufacturing for Reliable Adhesive Bonding of Composites
Updated April 2023 The interactions between a bond surface and an adhesive that determine the strength and reliability of a bonded structure occur in a zone that is perhaps 1 nanometer thick.
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