# # # 1. Large-area complex surface skin
Autoclave molding technology can ensure that the skin with large area and complex profile is evenly heated and compressed during the molding process, thus improving the consistency of product quality. This feature makes autoclave forming the first choice for manufacturing large-area skin of aircraft main load-bearing components, such as fuselage and central wing box.
# # # Second, the skin with high precision requirements
Autoclave molding process has high process stability and can produce products with low porosity and high dimensional accuracy, so it is especially suitable for aircraft skin manufacturing with high precision requirements. For example, the skin of key parts of an aircraft, such as rudder, elevator, vertical tail and horizontal tail, needs to have high dimensional accuracy and stability to ensure the flight performance and safety of the aircraft.
# # # Third, polymer-based composite skin
Autoclave molding process can meet the molding process requirements of almost all polymer-based composites. Polymer matrix composites have excellent properties such as light weight, high strength and corrosion resistance, and are widely used in modern aircraft manufacturing. Therefore, autoclave molding technology has a wide application prospect in aircraft skin manufacturing.
# # # Fourth, the skin that needs to bear large atmospheric dynamic load
During the flight of an aircraft, the skin needs to bear a large aerodynamic load. Autoclave molding technology can ensure that the skin is fully cured during the molding process, thus improving its strength and stiffness and enabling it to bear greater aerodynamic load. This is of great significance to ensure the flight performance and safety of aircraft.
To sum up, the autoclave molding process is especially suitable for the manufacture of large-area complex profiles, high-precision requirements, polymer-based composites and aircraft skins that have to bear large atmospheric dynamic loads because of its unique advantages.
