ATK Composites - Composite Structures Design, Fabrication,
Technology Development
 ATK
Composites is a leading supplier of mission-critical
composite structures to aerospace and defense primes.
We provide over 40 years of cutting edge experience
in the design, demonstration, and deployment of advanced
composite manufacturing technologies to provide our
customers with reliable, cost-effective solutions.
Key markets served include military and commercial
aircraft, launch vehicles, structures for deep space
applications and select commercial applications.
COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
DESIGN AND ENGINEERING
 ATK
Composites draws on more than four decades of composite
structures development and manufacturing heritage
to provide change to turnkey support or build-to-print
services, including:
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Engineering
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Tooling
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Fabrication
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Assembly
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Testing
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Delivery
Key manufacturing technologies
include automated fiber placement, hand layup, filament
winding, tube wrapping, VARTM, and precision assembly.
Our components and assemblies include sandwich, integrally
stiffened, and monocoque structures.
MILITARY AND COMMERCIAL
AIRCRAFT STRUCTURES
 ATK
Composites has supplied lightweight, fiber-placed composite
structures for a variety of production and development
programs since the early 1980s - longer than any other
composites supplier!
Structures produced
by ATK Composites include cockpit, fuselage, wing and
stabilator skins, inlet ducts, nacelles, wings, pivot
shafts, hub covers, drive shafts and aircraft door counterbalance
assemblies.
LAUNCH VEHICLE STRUCTURES
ATK Composites plays
a leading role in the U.S. commercial launch vehicle
industry, supplying fiber-placed, filament-wound, and
hand-laid structures for the Atlas V, Pegasus, and Delta
family of launch vehicles. Structures provided include
payload fairings, nose cones, interstages, thermal shields,
aeroskirts, adapters, and rocket motor cases.
SPACE STRUCTURES
ATK Composites provides
conventional tubulars as well as complex geometric-shaped
and curved tubulars, and a variety of sandwich panels
and hybrid laminates with metallic inserts for optional
benches, antenna support structures, solid surface and
deployable reflectors, bus structures, and panels. Extremely
low CTE and CME requirements are routinely met.
FIBER PLACEMENT TECHNOLOGY
ATK Composites is supplying
upper wing skins for the Joint Strike Fighter. Shown
here is a wing skin fiber placed for the program's AAD
phase. Fiber placement technology, pioneered by ATK
Composites, provides unprecedented accuracy, reliability
and material/labor savings.
FILAMENT WINDING TECHNOLOGY
Filament winding technology,
initially developed for rocket motors, has been transformed
by ATK Composites to suit commercial aircraft applications
like the 767 aircraft door spring. ATK Composites works
with wet or prepreg fibers.
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