A commercial passenger aircraft manufacturer would like to make aircraft fuselages with fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials. The required production rate is 10 units per month. The fuselage sections are 8m in diameter and 20m long. The composite fuselage structure must be manufactured with high quality and consistency to pass the stringent certification process.

(a) What material system (matrix and reinforcement) would you select and for what reasons?

(b) Which material forms (e.g. fibre preform, prepreg etc.) and corresponding manufacturing process would you recommend? State the specific reasons for each recommendation.