We have been successful in developing light and durable mirrors made of CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic) laminates for the reflector of the new CANGAROO-II 7 m telescope. The reflector has a parabolic shape (F/1.1) with a 30 m effective area which consists of 60 small spherical mirrors of CFRP laminates. The orientation of each mirror can be remotely adjusted by stepping motors. After the...

We have been successful in developing light and durable mirrors made of CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic) laminates for the re ector of the new CANGAROO-II 7 m telescope. The re ector has a parabolic shape (F/1.1) with a 30 m e ective area which consists of 60 small spherical mirrors of CFRP laminates. The orientation of each mirror can be remotely adjusted by stepping motors. After the rs...

X-ray inspection of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) is time consuming. With classical reconstruction methods, many projections of the object from different orientations are required to obtain high quality reconstructions of the interior fiber composition. In this work, we propose to reconstruct the interior of the CFRP samples with a Neural Network Filtered Backprojection (NN-FBP) method...

Release agents are applied as a liquid that forms a thin film coating to aid removal of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) parts from a mold or peel ply. This process, however, leads to inevitable contact transfer, causing release agent to remain on the part or repair. Before painting or bonding of the CFRP component to other structures, proper post-treatment to remove vaporizable component...

This study investigates the different types of ultrasonic inspection, when applied to assess the impact damage in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic CFRP laminates. The study surveys the two most used ultrasonic testing approaches first; namely the pulse-echo and the through-transmission modes. Then, the manuscript discusses and analyzes the enhanced ultrasonic testing methods that use the polar s...

Terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) imaging is considered a nondestructive evaluation method for composite materials used for examining various defects of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites and fire-retardant coatings in the reflective imaging modality. We demonstrate that hidden defects simulated by Teflon artificial inserts are imaged clearly in the perpendicular pol...

Material processing of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics (CFRP) parts by means of shape-cutting or jet-cutting technologies is state of the art today. These processes still perform in some applications with lack of part quality such as delamination and low productivity. Therefore, laser cutting processes have a great potential in material processing of CFRP. Laser process parameters have to be a...