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Wrinkles and Gaps
180 Skills
Updated Sep 20, 2024
What you'll learn
- Define wrinkle
- Define gap
- Describe the consequences of wrinkles and gaps
- List ways to prevent wrinkles and gaps
- Describe how to use the splice table on an engineering drawing
Course Description
In composite manufacturing, a wrinkle is an area of a ply that does not lay flat and smooth. The plies overlap, buckle, or fold back on themselves. A gap is an unintended separation between the fibers in a ply.
