joining together honeycomb panels
joining together honeycomb panels
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Dear all,
I am brand new into the world of honeycomb, as generally
I am assigned to other engineering tasks. I have just a little experience with carbon fiber parts and their manufacturing process.
We have to realise the envelope for a filed deployable equipment and the team proposed "light and rigid honeycomb". We are generally producing our envelopes in machined, welded or bolted metal.
so.. one of the questions we had was how to combine together honeycomb materials panels. From the forum I read that they are generally glued together. Are there other methods for combining together the panels?
Are there reference books/pages?
thanks a lot in advance to everybody and sorry for the naive question!
Edo
I am brand new into the world of honeycomb, as generally
I am assigned to other engineering tasks. I have just a little experience with carbon fiber parts and their manufacturing process.
We have to realise the envelope for a filed deployable equipment and the team proposed "light and rigid honeycomb". We are generally producing our envelopes in machined, welded or bolted metal.
so.. one of the questions we had was how to combine together honeycomb materials panels. From the forum I read that they are generally glued together. Are there other methods for combining together the panels?
Are there reference books/pages?
thanks a lot in advance to everybody and sorry for the naive question!
Edo





RE: joining together honeycomb panels
RE: joining together honeycomb panels
Are you interested in how to make the basic sandwich panel (how to attach the skins to the core) or how to join the panels together? (The Hexcel guides cover both, to a degree.)
It is possible to buy ready-manufactured honeycomb or foam sandwich panels, which can then be cut up and assembled into a structure.
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RE: joining together honeycomb panels
http://www.army-technology.com/contractors/field/
If a prefab unit is available in the size you need, then all you need to learn is how to modify it, not how to build it.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: joining together honeycomb panels
>> to RPstress:
yes, I would like to buy ready-manufactured panels, and then just join them together.
>> and Mike:
as of above, well I will need most likely to modify (resize) the panels, and not only to join them together, unless I find a custom-sized panels producers :)
thanks a lot again,
Edo
RE: joining together honeycomb panels
I.e., I think you will end up dealing with, or becoming, a custom box producer.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: joining together honeycomb panels
Extrusions can be bonded externally or internally. the latter most likely involves some edge machining. Elsewise I have also designed systems with internal framing that is joined together after sizing. There are a ton of adhesives for this depending on your needs and peed.
Put this in your search engine "ingenuity integrity passion" and click the first hit. You will find a company that might be able to help. There are some examples of closeouts under the "Custom Design" heading but the Hexcel manuals are great. Scribd.com has the essential ones available in pdf.