摘要 |
A method of fabricating a filament wound container includes providing a mandrel for winding a filament composite structure of a given thickness and having a closed end. The closed end is removed from the remainder of the composite structure, and the mandrel then is removed from the composite structure. A replacement closed-end member is positioned on the composite structure at the location of the removed closed end. The replaced closed-end member may be the original removed closed end. An overwrap thickness is filament wound about at least a portion of the composite structure and the replaced closed-end member.
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