Research, development and design

Research and development of innovations in composite material design and manufacture

Our experience as a UK composite manufacturer and structural composite assemblies specialist spans nearly 30 years, providing us with market-leading expertise in advanced composite component development and manufacture. PE Composites can work with you to research innovative composite materials solutions that meet your component performance requirements for even the most demanding of environments.

In response to your operational requirements, we can create application-specific smart composite materials that cut the impact of corrosion. This results in the reduction of maintenance to an absolute minimum and leaves you with a cost-effective operational support solution, with no loss of performance.

Our capability to adopt a fully integrated design approach, employing printed circuit discreet components plus Mineral Insulated Copper Clad (MICC) and Radio Frequency (RF) devices, reduces the number of component connectors and interfaces. This ensures an improvement in reliability, performance and unit cost economies. It also allows controlled and repeatable manufacturing to be undertaken, resulting in superior dependability and a reduction in through-life costs.

Antennas on Composites

We have developed a unique Antennas on Composites (AoC) concept, in which state-of-the-art composite materials are incorporated with the antenna module to form a conformal structure.

AoC is fully customisable and offers rugged designs that are suitable for above and below water platform fits, with repeatable performance and increased reliability. Such non-invasive structures are compact and lightweight with redundancy of incorporation, offering low-loss interconnections with cost-effectiveness.

Unlike conventional antenna radomes, with which complex calibration procedures are required to compensate any effect that may degrade the performance of the antenna, AoC includes the electrical properties of the composite hybrids with the antenna structures. This successfully demonstrates unique performance that is difficult to achieve on conventional antenna designs.

See our product list for more information on how an AoC solution could benefit your organisation. Contact us to find out how we can meet your composite research, design, manufacturing, testing and certification challenges.

Embedded health monitoring sensors

Embedded health monitoring sensors within the carbon laminate

Embedded antennas

Embedded antennas in composite structures

Antennas

Antennas on Composites (AoC)