CO 2 laser welding. For the laser welding process to achieve the left fuselage join, thin CFRTP butt straps up to 4.5 meters long were placed in layers along the longitudinal edges of both shells. The ...

This work was done in the BUSTI project, part of the Clean Sky 2 (now Clean Aviation) MFFD program to advance the technology readiness level (TRL) of a TPC aircraft fuselage assembled using welding ...

However, in 1956 Puchner 1 showed that a large increase in the fatigue strength of specimens containing discontinuous longitudinal ... recent work of the British Welding Research Association.