Abaris Advanced Composite Structures: Damage Repair – Phase 2

The Phase 2 repair course is designed as a follow-on to our Phase 1 course for repair designers, technicians, mechanics, supervisors, and quality assurance personnel who are directly involved in providing high performance repairs to advanced composite structures.

Abaris Advanced Composite Structures: Damage Repair Phase 2 is devoted to hands-on repair skills. See below to find out more.

With Phase 2, less time is spent in the classroom and more time is spent in the workshop, allowing students time to practise different repair scenarios. Students are introduced to typical repair instructions and given a variety of damaged parts and structures to perform repairs throughout the week.

Fundamental parts of this course are:
• evaluating the material type and ply orientation of an unknown structure
• removing internal contamination (such as water ingress)

In addition, each student-team will:

• assess damage to real composite structures
• determine a repair approach
• undertake the repairs

Over the five-day period, three different parts will be repaired by each team of participants, with different materials and challenges with each new repair scenario.

Our facility has many different types of ‘hot-bonders’ to work with. The advantages of each will become familiar to the students as they have the opportunity to work with several of them individually throughout the week.

Much emphasis is made on proper thermocouple and heat blanket placement, and many different bag schedules and breather scenarios will be explored to facilitate the repairs.

Assessment is by a written test at the end of the week. Learning is through theory, demonstration and practical activities.

Students gain a certificate of attendance from Abaris.

You need to have completed Phase 1.

Abaris Advanced Composite Structures: Damage Repair - Phase 3

The course is held at Banbury and Bicester College, in the Motorsport Engineering Centre in Bicester, and delivered by Abaris Training.

It is 40 hours over 5 days.