Composite Bladder Tube Demonstration | Smart Tooling Process | Smart Tooling

Watch a demonstration of a Smart Tool that acts as a bladder create a tube-shaped composite part, with an interior fastener build-up and trapped geometry. Because Smart Tools are rigid at layup, but elastic for extraction, material can be laid up directly onto the Smart Tool, and can be demolded from trapped geometry parts. Learn more about this application at 0:00 Overview 0:21 Layup 0:54 Cure 1:21 Extract 1:34 Reform 2:00 Review Smart Tooling provides formable, reusable composite tooling solutions for manufacturing composite parts with complex geometries for the aerospace & defense industry. Today we’ll be preparing a tubular structure with a fastener build up which can represent any composite part with trapped geometry.