Addcomposites Learn
Free video courses on composites: laminate design, automated fibre placement, filament winding and large format printing. Every lesson runs a live simulation and asks you to predict what happens next. No account needed.
The foundation: why a composite part is designed ply by ply, what a ply is made of and what it weighs, stacking rules, laminate stiffness, strength and failure, ply drops, and handing a design to the shop. Lessons show the design in AddPly, our browser app for laminate design; the theory behind drape and failure is taught on our own simulations.
Our own curriculum; the classic textbooks as further reading.
How AFP really works: the machine, the defects, path planning, inspection, cure and certification. Every lesson runs a real simulation, shows the maths and stops to ask you a question.
Built on Automated Fiber Placement: Status, Challenges, and Evolution by Ramy Harik & Alex Brasington, with permission.
Winding patterns and how they close, geodesic and non-geodesic paths on domes, sizing a pressure vessel, the machine and its axes, tension and resin control, and testing what you wound. Built by our engineers, with the classic references as further reading.
Our own curriculum; the classic books as further reading.
Printing metre-scale parts and tools from pellets: the extruder and the bead, layer time and the weld, fibre and warp, machines and machining, and printed tooling. Built by our engineers from the open research literature.
Our own curriculum; the research papers as further reading.
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