Craig Simpson

TL;DR: A method for manufacturing a composite structure is described in this paper, where a frame and selectively pressurizable forms are used to define the interior members of composite structure and frames define the exterior surface of the composite structure.

TL;DR: In one embodiment, the invention includes the application of filament to a rotating mandrel to create a desired shape as discussed by the authors, which includes the filament winding of both simple and complex shapes.

TL;DR: A method and apparatus for manufacturing fiber-reinforced, composite materials relies on one or more processes improving over conventional forming, filling, and processing techniques as discussed by the authors, such as cyclic vacuum bagging process alternately applied over pressure and outside vacuum to a vacuum bag process.

TL;DR: In this paper, a composite material made of multiple filament bands is described, where the filament bands are wound in multiple orientations to form a sheet of composite material and the composite material may have a varying number of layer and fiber orientations throughout the sheet.