Water Power Technologies Office R&D Deep Dive Webinar Series: Leveraging the Advantages of Additive Manufacturing to Produce Advanced Composite Structures for Marine Energy Systems

WPTO held a webinar on “Leveraging the Advantages of Additive Manufacturing to Produce Advanced Composite Structures for Marine Energy Systems.” Many marine energy systems designers and developers are beginning to implement composite materials into the load-bearing structures of their devices, but traditional mold-making costs for composite prototyping are disproportionately high and lead times can be long. Furthermore, established molding techniques for marine energy structures generally require many manufacturing steps, such as secondary bonding and tooling. This webinar explores the possibilities of additively manufactured composite molds and how they can be used to reduce costs and lead times through novel design features and processes for marine energy composite structures.

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