Technical Resources

Composite Preforming, Documented

Reference material on tailored fiber placement — how the process works, where it outperforms conventional laminates, and the published research behind it.

Process guide

What Is Tailored Fiber Placement?

How TFP stitches continuous carbon or glass tow along calculated load paths to build near-net-shape preforms for RTM, vacuum infusion and prepreg layup.

Written by NextGen Preforms

Engineering note

Open-Hole Performance in Composite Laminates

Why drilling a hole through a cured laminate severs the fibers carrying the load, and what changes when the opening is formed during preforming instead.

Written by NextGen Preforms

Research summary

IACMI: Tailored Fiber Placement for Complex Preforms

Summary of the public-release final technical report on TFP structural performance, produced by the University of Dayton Research Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Third-party report — UDRI / IACMI

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