System and method of post-cure processing of composite core
AssigneeBell Helicopter Textron Inc.
InventorsPhillip A. Kendrick, S. Brent Woychesin
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Abstract
A method of joining a first bulk composite core and a second bulk composite core by applying an adhesive to a surface network of the first bulk composite core; inserting a plurality of mandrels into a plurality of cell members of the first bulk composite core and a plurality of cell members of the second composite core, thereby aligning the cell members of the first bulk composite core to the cell members of the second bulk composite core; pressing the respective surface networks of the first bulk composite core and the second bulk composite core together with the adhesive located therebetween; and curing the adhesive.
Claims20
A method of joining a first bulk composite core and a second bulk composite core, the method comprising the steps of:
- applying an adhesive to a surface network of the first bulk composite core;
- inserting a plurality of mandrels into a plurality of cell members of the first bulk composite core and a plurality of cell members of the second composite core, thereby aligning the cell members of the first bulk composite core to the cell members of the second bulk composite core;
- pressing the respective surface networks of the first bulk composite core and the second bulk composite core together with the adhesive located therebetween;
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- curing the adhesive.
A method of joining a first bulk composite core and a second bulk composite core, the method comprising the steps of:
- applying an adhesive at a midportion of each of a plurality of mandrels;
- inserting the plurality of mandrels into a plurality of cell members of the first bulk composite core and a plurality of cell members of the second composite core, thereby aligning the cell members of the first bulk composite core to the cell members of the second bulk composite core;
- pressing the respective surface networks of the first bulk composite core and the second bulk composite core together;
- and
- curing the adhesive.
A method processing a first bulk composite core and a second bulk composite core, the method comprising the steps of:
- applying an adhesive to a surface network of the first bulk composite core;
- pressing the respective surface networks of the first bulk composite core and the second bulk composite core together with the adhesive located therebetween;
- and
- curing the adhesive;
- and
- cutting through each of the tube members of at least one of the first bulk composite core and the second bulk composite core so as to create a wafer therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.