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Manufacture and NDE of Multi-direction Composite Flywheel Rims

Faissal Abdel-Hady

Department of Textile Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36830, USA

George Baaklini

NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA

Yasser Gowayed

Ryan Creighton

Dongyeon Lee

Department of Textile Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36830, USA

Jeffery Trudell

NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA

A universal winding machine is designed and constructed to manufacture a Multi-direction Composite (MDC) flywheel. The machine has three translation axes (XYZ) for the main carriage, three rotation axes around XYZ and an axis of mandrel rotation. Radial rings comprising fibers in the radial direction and hoop rings with fibers in the hoop direction are manufactured using this machine. Multiple hoop and radial rings are assembled in a special assembly mold to form an MDC rim. Manufacturing details and results of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) using X-ray and thermal techniques conducted of radial and hoop rings are presented.

Key Words: flywheels • composite manufacture • filament winding • nondestructive evaluation (NDE) • multi-direction composite (MDC) • thermal imaging • X-ray

Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, Vol. 24, No. 4, 413-421 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0731684405044897
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