Reflectivity and emissivity analysis of thermoplastic CFRP for optimising Xenon heating and thermographic measurements

The demand for efficient composite production processes is growing as the proportion of composites in modern aircraft increases. Particularly, thermoplastic composites are interesting for sustainability and cost efficiency. They can be manufactured using deposition methods, which involve heating by radiation in the visible and near-infrared...

Investigations on Explainable Artificial Intelligence methods for the deep learning classification of fibre layup defect in the automated composite manufacturing

Automated fibre layup techniques are widely used in the aviation sector for the efficient production of composite components. However, the required manual inspection can take up to 50 % of the manufacturing time. The automated classification of fibre layup defects with Neural Networks potentially increases the inspection efficiency. However,...