Work
Composites, fabrication, and engineering tools. Built to perform under load.
Composite Stepped and Scarf Repair Fabrication
Stepped and scarf joint repair geometries evaluated on 24-ply quasi-isotropic carbon fiber laminates. Covers substrate preparation, patch layup, vacuum bag cure, and mechanical coupon extraction for shear testing.
Aerospace-Grade Carbon Fiber Laminate Fabrication
Wet layup and oven cure of Toray T700 / Epon 862 laminates built to aerospace standards. Two panel configurations fabricated for mechanical testing and repair qualification.
Lab Oven to Composite Vacuum Oven Conversion
A hands-on workshop build converting a standard laboratory oven into a composite curing vacuum oven. The modification involved drilling a through-body NPT fitting and plumbing a vacuum line to enable vacuum-bagged cure cycles.
Wet Layup Calculator
Two tools for composite fabrication: calculate catalyst amounts from mixing ratios (15 preset aerospace/marine resin systems), and estimate resin quantity from part geometry and ply schedule.
Material Reference Tool
An interactive reference for composite material properties — moduli, densities, and typical applications for common reinforcement and resin systems.
Cure Cycle Timer
Step-through timer for oven cure cycles — define ramp/dwell profiles, track active cure progress with alerts, and export a visual cure profile chart.
Cure Logger
Import thermocouple CSV data from your data logger, visualize the cure profile across up to four channels, review auto-detected ramp/dwell/cooldown phases, and print a cure record report.