Measurement Solutions for Carbon Fiber Materials

Applications

  • Non-crimp fabrics (NCF)
  • Preforms
  • Multi-axial fabrics
  • Roving, yarns and tows
  • Carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP)
  • Carbon fiber stacks
  • Carbon non-woven
  • UD-tapes

Damage and Defects

  • Undulations and distortions
  • Gaps
  • Wrinkles and overlaps
  • Misalignments

Benefits

  • Non-destructive
  • Analyzation of hidden layer
  • Imaging and inline solutions

Characterizing

  • Structural paramters such as 
    • Fiber orientation and
    • Fiber areal weight
  • Defects & errors

Solutions

Single Point

EddyCus® lab Series

Imaging

EddyCus® map Series

Inline

EddyCus® inline Series

Rob

EddyCus® rob Series

Results

Live View of Fiber Damage
Monitoring Software

EddyEVA Shows the Fiber Orientation and Defects of the 2nd Layer of the Examined Stack

Inline Control Software Shows the Grammage of a CFRP

EddyEVA Shows the Fiber Orientation
of a Preform

Visualization of the ratio of roving to filament

Yarn and Tow

System for detecting gaps and orientation of carbon fiber fabrics

Gaps in 2D and 3D Textiles

Graph showing the correlation between fiber area weight and eddy current signal.

Fiber Areal Weight of a Textile

The image shows the scan result of the isotropy for the carbon fiber fabric orientation.

Fiber Orientation and Fiber Areal Weight