Key Features

• Continuous Welds
• Full Penetration Welds
• No Corner Welding

Drivers toward new tubular designs

• Optimize tool designs to reduce tool weight, production time and overall tooling cost.
• Use of standard truss designs (simplifies design and structural analysis)
• Improve ease of fabrication with less scrap loss
• Improved air flow during autoclave thermal cycles
• Opportunity for hybrid substructure, combining the best of both: Invar plate for face sheet stability and Invar tubing for rigid structures
• Current availability and quality of tubing