Shape Memory Polymer Bladder | Composite Tube Demo Step by Step Instructions | Smart Tooling

Watch the step by step process of how we manufactured a composite tube using carbon fiber pre-preg and Smart Tools that act as bladders.

0:00 Materials Required
0:26 Layup prepreg on demo tube
0:53 Closing the mold
1:55 Bagging
3:14 Debulking
3:51 Cure cycle
4:31 Debagging & opening the mold
5:29 Extracting the Smart Tool
6:03 Hand-shaping the Smart Tool for reforming
6:18 Bagging the reforming mold
9:00 Reforming the Smart Tool
9:18 Debagging the reformed Smart Tool

[roidroid]

Shouldn't a shape-memory material be able to return to it's "programmed" shape without needing to be RE-molded?

[goolvlaster]

Can you explain about material your demo tube.