ARapidPrototypingofCompositeMaterials

The new materials are most essentially required for divergent application in the field of aerospace industry. The conventional materials fail to satisfy the complex needs of the new applications. The materials should be of low weight with high strength. The materials should be corrosive resistant and non-reactive to the environment. Such requirements are contradicting with each other. So the new type of materials named as composites came into existence for the last three decades. The manufacturing of these composites is in a different way to conventional materials, like steel. The composite materials consist of two or three constituents. The important constituents are fiber, resin and the remaining are filler material. For making a huge structure, the composites are made by hand layout process. But for the small products like automotive parts, interior decorative manufacturing can be done with machines. In this paper the applications of rapid prototyping to prepare the composite materials are discussed. Surely, the rapid prototyping will decrease the cost of manufacturing, reduce the time, reduce the wastage of materials as the scrap