ABSTRACT
Manufacturing with composite materials is very different from metals. This is because when making a metal part, the properties of the virgin material and the finished part are fundamentally unchanged. For composites, the manufacturing process plays a key role. During composite processing, one makes not only the part of the desired shape, but also the material itself with specific properties. In addition, the quality of the composite material and the part fabricated depends on the manufacturing process, because it is during the manufacturing process that the matrix material and the fiber reinforcement are combined and consolidated to form the composite.
