Recently, Arris Composites announced that its Additive Moulding™ carbon fiber truss has won the "Red Dot" 2020 Design Concept Award.
Arris's first carbon fiber truss doubled the stiffness of the I-beam, while also increasing corrosion resistance and integrating various functions into the structure. Arris's innovative enhanced molding manufacturing process makes the product highly scalable in size and 100% recyclable. This process combines enhanced manufacturing with traditional batch molding technology to continuously produce carbon fiber composite materials that can be combined with metals and even electronic materials.
Reinforced molding technology imitates the wood grain arrangement of trees in nature to improve strength, which is essential for applications such as aerospace and automobiles with demanding structural requirements. Design and research personnel imitate the wood grain arrangement of the fibers in the topological structure to optimize high-performance fiber composite materials. Reinforced molding technology allows designers and developers to align glass fibers and carbon fibers along the load path in complex three-dimensional parts. The fibers can also be precisely aligned around the attachment features, so that optimized composite materials can be applied to the design of advanced parts on a large scale.
Arris CEO and founder Ethan Escowitz explained: "Carbon fiber is one of the highest performance materials currently available, but the high-cost manufacturing process limits it to applications such as aircraft and high-end automobiles. Arris's truss demonstrates enhanced molding. How can the process provide optimized composite materials with mass production and cost advantages, which can be widely used in various industries such as electronics, sporting goods, aerospace, and automobiles."