• Direct access to material and process engineers from more than 80 world-class companies and academic partners in the GreatLakes Composites Consortium.
• Laboratory facilities supported by major Southern California corporations.
• Access via the Internet to composites information and resources.
• A 20,000-square-foot instructional and manufacturing facility, complete with classrooms, fabrication areas and testing facilities.

Training Resource Capabilities:

• Degree, certificate and transfer programs
• Customized in-house training programs as well as state-of-the-art off-site
• training via satellite, video and teleconferencing

Areas of Concentration in Composites include:

• Fiberglass reinforcement production
• gel coating and laminating
• resin transfer molding
• vacuum bagging
• injection and compression molding
• tooling and mold construction
• filament winding.

Physical Capacities

• Machine/trim and drill equipment
• Vertical mill with CNC
• Cold storage/sub-zero walk-in
• Roller press/die-cutter
• 29-inch capability
• Cobra Dura 18-inch-by-5-foot filament winder
• TEC autoclave
• 4-by-6-foot, 95 psi with temperatures to 500 degrees fahrenheit
• Resin transfer molding
• Vertical/horizontal press, plural component pumping system
• Compression molding
• Three dual-heated platten, capacities up to 12-by-12 inches
• Curing ovens
• Batch and walk-in, with temperatures to 650 degrees fahrenheit
• Analysis and Testing Capabilities
• INSTRON material testing system to 20,000 pounds
• Tensile testing equipment to 60,000 pounds
• Ultrasonic inspection
• Metallagraph equipment
• Microhardness testing equipment
• Impact testing equipment
• Magnetic particle inspection

Sponsored by:

The Navy Center of Excellence for Composites Manufacturing Technology

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