Flexible Cost Effective Processing of Composite Materials (FlexiComp)

FlexiComp建议研究一种灵活、快速和具有成本效益的复合加工技术的技术和商业可行性，适用于从运输到医疗以及介于两者之间的各种不同应用。最终目标是在30分钟的循环时间内，从一系列预浸料复合材料中生产出高质量的复合材料部件，而无需使用高压灭菌器或昂贵的工具。FlexiComp建议大幅降低加工成本和资本成本，使碳纤维(和其他预浸料)能够在许多小批量(和潜在的大批量)应用中经济高效地商业化。

FlexiComp proposes to research the technical and commercial feasibility of a flexible, rapid and cost effective composite processing technology for a multitude of different applications from transport to medical and everything in between. The ultimate aim is to produce a high quality composite part from a range of prepreg composite materials within a thirty minute cycle time without using an autoclave or expensive tooling. FlexiComp proposes to provide a significant reduction in processing cost and capital cost to enable carbon fibre (and other prepregs) to be cost effectively commercialised in numerous low volume (and potentially high volume) applications.