1B001 Equipment for the production or inspection of “composite” structures or laminates specified by 1A002. or “fibrous or filamentary materials” specified by 1C010., as follows, and specially designed components and accessories therefor:
N.B.: SEE ALSO 1B101 AND 1B201.
a. Filament winding machines of which the motions for positioning, wrapping and winding fibres are coordinated and programmed in three or more axes, specially designed for the manufacture of “composite” structures or laminates, from “fibrous or filamentary materials”;
b. ‘Tape‑laying machines’, of which the motions for positioning and laying tape are coordinated and programmed in five or more ‘primary servo positioning’ axes, specially designed for the manufacture of “composite” airframe or missile structures;
For the purposes of 1B001.b., ‘tape‑laying machines’ have the ability to lay one or more ‘filament bands’ limited to widths greater than 25.4 mm and less than or equal to 304.8 mm, and to cut and restart individual ‘filament band’ courses during the laying process.
c. Multidirectional, multidimensional weaving machines or interlacing machines, including adapters and modification kits, for weaving, interlacing or braiding fibres, to manufacture “composite” structures;
For the purposes of 1B001.c., the technique of interlacing includes knitting.
d. Equipment specially designed or adapted for the production of reinforcement fibres, as follows:
1. Equipment for converting polymeric fibres (such as polyacrylonitrile, rayon, pitch or polycarbosilane) into carbon fibres or silicon carbide fibres, including special equipment to strain the fibre during heating;
2. Equipment for the chemical vapour deposition of elements or compounds, on heated filamentary substrates, to manufacture silicon carbide fibres;
3. Equipment for the wet‑spinning of refractory ceramics (such as aluminium oxide);
4. Equipment for converting aluminium containing precursor fibres into alumina fibres by heat treatment;
e. Equipment for producing prepregs specified by 1C010.e. by the hot melt method;
f. Non‑destructive inspection equipment specially designed for “composite” materials, as follows:
1. X‑ray tomography systems for three dimensional defect inspection;
2. Numerically controlled ultrasonic testing machines of which the motions for positioning transmitters or receivers are simultaneously coordinated and programmed in four or more axes to follow the three dimensional contours of the component under inspection.
g. Tow‑placement machines, of which the motions for positioning and laying tows or sheets are coordinated and programmed in two or more ‘primary servo positioning’ axes, specially designed for the manufacture of “composite” airframe or “missile” structures.
For the purposes of 1B001.g., ‘tow‑placement machines’ have the ability to place one or more ‘filament bands’ having widths less than or equal to 25.4 mm, and to cut and restart individual ‘filament band’ courses during the placement process.
1. For the purposes of 1B001., ‘primary servo positioning’ axes control, under computer program direction, the position of the end effector (i.e., head) in space relative to the work piece at the correct orientation and direction to achieve the desired process.
2. For the purposes of 1B001., a ‘filament band’ is a single continuous width of fully or partially resin‑impregnated tape, tow or fibre. Fully or partially resin‑impregnated ‘filament bands’ include those coated with dry powder that tacks upon heating.
1B002 Equipment designed to produce metal alloy powder or particulate materials and having all of the following:
a. Specially designed to avoid contamination; and
b. Specially designed for use in one of the processes specified by 1C002.c.2.
N.B.: SEE ALSO 1B102.
1B003 Tools, dies, moulds or fixtures, for “superplastic forming” or “diffusion bonding” titanium, aluminium or their alloys, specially designed for the manufacture of any of the following:
a. Airframe or aerospace structures;
b. “Aircraft” or aerospace engines; or
c. Specially designed components for structures specified by 1B003.a. or for engines specified by 1B003.b.
1B101 Equipment, other than that specified by 1B001, for the “production” of structural composites as follows; and specially designed components and accessories therefor:
N.B.: SEE ALSO 1B201.
Note: Components and accessories specified by 1B101 include moulds, mandrels, dies, fixtures and tooling for the preform pressing, curing, casting, sintering or bonding of composite structures, laminates and manufactures thereof.
a. Filament winding machines or ‘fibre/tow‑placement machines’, of which the motions for positioning, wrapping and winding fibres can be coordinated and programmed in three or more axes, designed to fabricate composite structures or laminates from fibrous or filamentary materials, and coordinating and programming controls;
b. ‘Tape‑laying machines’ of which the motions for positioning and laying tape can be coordinated and programmed in two or more axes, designed for the manufacture of composite airframe and “missile” structures;
Note: For the purposes of 1B101.a. and 1B101.b., the following definitions apply:
1. A ‘filament band’ is a single continuous width of fully or partially resin‑impregnated tape, tow, or fibre. Fully or partially resin‑impregnated ‘filament bands’ include those coated with dry powder that tacks upon heating.
2. ‘Fibre/tow‑placement machines’ and ‘tape‑laying machines’ are machines that perform similar processes that use computer‑guided heads to lay one or several ‘filament bands’ onto a mould to create a part or a structure. These machines have the ability to cut and restart individual ‘filament band’ courses during the laying process.
3. ‘Fibre/tow‑placement machines’ have the ability to place one or more ‘filament bands’ having widths less than or equal to 25.4 mm. This refers to the minimum width of material the machine can place, regardless of the upper capability of the machine.
4. ‘Tape‑laying machines’ have the ability to place one or more ‘filament bands’ having widths less than or equal to 304.8 mm, but cannot place ‘filaments bands’ with a width equal to or less than 25.4 mm. This refers to the minimum width of material the machine can place, regardless of the upper capability of the machine.
c. Equipment designed or modified for the “production” of “fibrous or filamentary materials” as follows:
1. Equipment for converting polymeric fibres (such as polyacrylonitrile, rayon or polycarbosilane) including special provision to strain the fibre during heating;
2. Equipment for the vapour deposition of elements or compounds on heated filament substrates;
3. Equipment for the wet‑spinning of refractory ceramics (such as aluminium oxide);
d. Equipment designed or modified for special fibre surface treatment or for producing prepregs and preforms specified by entry 9C110.
Note: 1B101.d. includes rollers, tension stretchers, coating equipment, cutting equipment and clicker dies.
1B102 Metal powder “production equipment”, other than that specified by 1B002, and components as follows:
N.B.: SEE ALSO 1B115.b.
a. Metal powder “production equipment” usable for the “production”, in a controlled environment, of spherical, spheroidal or atomised materials specified by 1C011.a., 1C011.b., 1C111.a.1., 1C111.a.2. or in the Munitions List;
b. Specially designed components for “production equipment” specified by 1B002 or 1B102.a.
Note: 1B102 includes:
a. Plasma generators (high frequency arc‑jet) usable for obtaining sputtered or spherical metallic powders with organisation of the process in an argon‑water environment;
b. Electroburst equipment usable for obtaining sputtered or spherical metallic powders with organisation of the process in an argon‑water environment;
c. Equipment usable for the “production” of spherical aluminium powders by powdering a melt in an inert medium (e.g. nitrogen).
1B115 Equipment, other than that specified by 1B002 or 1B102, for the production of propellant and propellant constituents, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:
a. “Production equipment” for the “production”, handling or acceptance testing of liquid propellants or propellant constituents specified by 1C011.a., 1C011.b., 1C111 or in the Munitions List;
b. “Production equipment” for the “production”, handling, mixing, curing, casting, pressing, machining, extruding or acceptance testing of solid propellants or propellant constituents specified by 1C011.a., 1C011.b., 1C111 or in the Munitions List.
Note: 1B115.b. does not apply to batch mixers, continuous mixers or fluid energy mills. For the control of batch mixers, continuous mixers and fluid energy mills see 1B117, 1B118 and 1B119.
Note 1: For equipment specially designed for the production of military goods, see the Munitions List.
Note 2: 1B115 does not apply to equipment for the “production”, handling and acceptance testing of boron carbide.
1B116 Specially designed nozzles for producing pyrolitically derived materials formed on a mould, mandrel or other substrate from precursor gases which decompose in the 1,573 K (1,300oC) to 3,173 K (2,900oC) temperature range at pressures of 130 Pa to 20 kPa.
1B117 Batch mixers with provision for mixing under vacuum in the range of zero to 13.326 kPa and with temperature control capability of the mixing chamber and having all of the following, and specially designed components therefor:
a. A total volumetric capacity of 110 litres or more; and
b. At least one ‘mixing/kneading shaft’ mounted off centre.
In 1B117.b, the term ‘mixing/kneading shaft’ does not refer to deagglomerators or knife‑spindles.
1B118 Continuous mixers with provision for mixing under vacuum in the range of zero to 13.326 kPa and with a temperature control capability of the mixing chamber and having any of the following, and specially designed components therefor:
a. Two or more mixing/kneading shafts; or
b. A single rotating shaft which oscillates and having kneading teeth/pins on the shaft as well as inside the casing of the mixing chamber.
1B119 Fluid energy mills usable for grinding or milling substances specified by 1C011.a., 1C011.b., 1C111 or in the Munitions List, and specially designed components therefor.
1B201 Filament winding machines, other than those specified by 1B001 or 1B101, and related equipment, as follows:
a. Filament winding machines having all of the following characteristics:
1. Having motions for positioning, wrapping, and winding fibres coordinated and programmed in two or more axes;
2. Specially designed to fabricate composite structures or laminates from “fibrous or filamentary materials”; and
3. Capable of winding cylindrical tubes with an internal diameter between 75 and 650 mm and lengths of 300 mm or greater;
b. Coordinating and programming controls for the filament winding machines specified by 1B201.a.;
c. Precision mandrels for the filament winding machines specified by 1B201.a.
1B225 Electrolytic cells for fluorine production with an output capacity greater than 250 g of fluorine per hour.
1B226 Electromagnetic isotope separators designed for, or equipped with, single or multiple ion sources capable of providing a total ion beam current of 50 mA or greater.
Note: 1B226 includes separators:
a. Capable of enriching stable isotopes;
b. With the ion sources and collectors both in the magnetic field and those configurations in which they are external to the field.
1B227 Not used.
1B228 Hydrogen‑cryogenic distillation columns having all of the following characteristics:
a. Designed for operation with internal temperatures of 35 K (‑238°C) or less;
b. Designed for operation at an internal pressure of 0.5 to 5 MPa;
c. Constructed of either:
1. Stainless steel of the 300 series with low sulphur content and with an austenitic ASTM (or equivalent standard) grain size number of 5 or greater; or
2. Equivalent materials which are both cryogenic and H2‑compatible; and
d. With internal diameters of 30 cm or greater and ‘effective lengths’ of 4 m or greater.
The term ‘effective length’ means the active height of packing material in a packed‑type column, or the active height of internal contactor plates in a plate‑type column.
1B229 Not used.
1B230 Pumps capable of circulating solutions of concentrated or dilute potassium amide catalyst in liquid ammonia (KNH2/NH3), having all of the following characteristics:
a. Airtight (i.e., hermetically sealed);
b. A capacity greater than 8.5 m3/h; and
c. Either of the following characteristics:
1. For concentrated potassium amide solutions (1% or greater), an operating pressure of 1.5 to 60 MPa; or
2. For dilute potassium amide solutions (less than 1%), an operating pressure of 20 to 60 MPa.
1B231 Tritium facilities or plants, and equipment therefor, as follows:
a. Facilities or plants for the production, recovery, extraction, concentration, or handling of tritium;
b. Equipment for tritium facilities or plants, as follows:
1. Hydrogen or helium refrigeration units capable of cooling to 23 K (‑250°C) or less, with heat removal capacity greater than 150 W;
2. Hydrogen isotope storage or hydrogen isotope purification systems using metal hydrides as the storage or purification medium.
1B232 Turboexpanders or turboexpander‑compressor sets having both of the following characteristics:
a. Designed for operation with an outlet temperature of 35 K (‑238°C) or less; and
b. Designed for a throughput of hydrogen gas of 1000 kg/h or greater.
1B233 Lithium isotope separation facilities or plants, and systems and equipment therefor, as follows:
a. Facilities or plants for the separation of lithium isotopes;
b. Equipment for the separation of lithium isotopes based on the lithium‑mercury amalgam process, as follows:
1. Packed liquid‑liquid exchange columns specially designed for lithium amalgams;
2. Mercury or lithium amalgam pumps;
3. Lithium amalgam electrolysis cells;
4. Evaporators for concentrated lithium hydroxide solution.
c. Ion exchange systems specially designed for lithium isotope separation, and specially designed component parts therefor;
d. Chemical exchange systems (employing crown ethers, cryptands, or lariat ethers) specially designed for lithium isotope separation, and specially designed component parts therefor.
N.B.: SEE ALSO 0B001 FOR LITHIUM ISOTOPE SEPARATION EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS FOR THE PLASMA SEPARATION PROCESS THAT ARE DIRECTLY APPLICABLE TO URANIUM ISOTOPE SEPARATION.
1B234 High explosive containment vessels, chambers, containers and other similar containment devices designed for the testing of high explosives or explosive devices and having both of the following characteristics:
a. Designed to fully contain an explosion equivalent to 2 kg of TNT or greater; and
b. Having design elements or features enabling real time or delayed transfer of diagnostic or measurement information.
1B235 Target assemblies and components for the production of tritium as follows:
a. Target assemblies made of or containing lithium enriched in the lithium‑6 isotope specially designed for the production of tritium through irradiation, including insertion in a nuclear reactor;
b. Components specially designed for the target assemblies specified in 1B235.a.
Components specially designed for target assemblies for the production of tritium may include lithium pellets, tritium getters, and specially‑coated cladding.