A review and framework for modeling methodologies to advance automated fiber placement

A Brasington, B Francis, M Godbold, R Harik - Composites Part C: Open …, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate and reliable modeling techniques are required to properly understand and predict
manufacturing processes and the quality of the final product. The Automated Fiber …

[HTML][HTML] Application of robotic manipulation for carbon fiber reinforced polymers manufacturing-A survey

WA Khan, MU Anjum, H Khan, A Hamza… - Composites Part C …, 2024 - Elsevier
With the rapid advancement in the manufacturing industry, there has been a massive rise in
the demand for products made of fiber reinforced polymer composites as they have high …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of deposition rates on the mode I fracture toughness of in-situ consolidated thermoplastic composites

MJ Donough, AL Farnsworth, AW Phillips… - Composites Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Innovations in recycling, automated and out-of-autoclave processes have renewed
significant interests in carbon fibre-polyether ether ketone (CF/PEEK) thermoplastic …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of laser assisted tape placement processing conditions on microstructural evolution, residual stress and interlaminar shear strength of carbon fibre …

H Ma, AK Bandaru, PM Weaver - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
In the present study, both experiments and thermo-mechanical coupled simulations were
conducted to characterise the diverse crystallisation behaviours and the processing …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven thermal modeling of in-situ Automated Fiber Placement

A Fontes, F Shadmehri - Composites Part A: Applied Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study proposes a data-driven model for thermal history prediction during in-situ
Automated Fiber Placement of thermoplastic composites. Temperature data was …

Machine-learning based process monitoring for automated composites manufacturing

A Mujtaba, F Islam, P Kaeding, T Lindemann… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2023 - Springer
Automated fibre placement (AFP) is an advanced robotic manufacturing technique which
can overcome the challenges of traditional composite manufacturing. The interlaminar …

[HTML][HTML] Three-dimensional heat transfer analysis of Hot Gas Torch (HGT)-assisted Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) for thermoplastic composites

L Zacherl, A Fontes, F Shadmehri - Composite Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) is a key additive manufacturing process for the
production of complex composite structures. This study focuses on the in-situ AFP process …

Laser-assisted AFP-TPC manufacturing of CF/PEEK high-performance thermoplastic composites with low warpage-deformation defects

C Zhang, Y Duan, SC Joshi, B Wang, H **ao - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aims to reveal the warpage-deformation defect generation mechanism in the
automated fiber placement for thermoplastic composites (AFP-TPC). First, thermal …

[HTML][HTML] On the ply-wise investigation of the crystalline morphology distribution of in-situ consolidated CF/PEEK composite using Wide-Angle X-ray scattering (WAXS)

S Shafaq, MJ Donough, AL Farnsworth… - Composites Part A …, 2025 - Elsevier
In-situ consolidated thermoplastic composites using automated fibre placement (AFP)
experience highly localised and transient heating and cooling cycles during the process …

[HTML][HTML] Data-driven optimization of additive composite manufacturing using automated fibre placement: A study on process parameters effects and interactions

F Islam, MJ Donough, E Oromiehie, AW Phillips… - Composites Part A …, 2025 - Elsevier
The influence of process parameters and their interactions on the interlaminar shear
strength (ILSS) of additively manufactured CF-PEEK composites was investigated. The …