Tooling for Composite Aerospace Structures

Zeaid has been working in the field of aerospace design, materials, analysis and manufacturing for the past 12 years. He has a PhD in aerospace engineering from Arizona State University and many other graduate degrees including applied mathematics, business and mechanical engineering. He worked at several companies including Boeing as a structures and liaison engineer as well as a project manager supporting a wide variety of platforms including the 787, 777X, NMA, and F18. He then moved to General Atomics where he supported many programs including the MQ25 where he was a project manager with the airframe integrated product team. He currently works at Boom supersonic where he is the principal materials and process engineer. He holds 8 patents and patent applications and is a registered professional engineer in 3 states and has published over 30 papers. He is also an adjunct faculty and has been teaching at many colleges and universities across the US for the past 7 years teaching both math and engineering courses.

1. Introduction2. Composite Materials3. Tooling Materials and Processing4. Design Approaches and Guidelines5. Manufacturing and Quality6. Operation of Tools7. Modeling and Simulation8. Future Outlook