Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins
Very short manufacture cycle times are required if continuous carbon fibre and epoxy composite components are to be economically viable solutions for high volume composite production for the automotive industry. Here, a manufacturing process variant of resin transfer moulding (RTM), targets a reduct...
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| author | Martin, Ffion A. Warrior, N.A. Simacek, Pavel Advani, Suresh Hughes, Adrian Darlington, Roger Senan, Eissa |
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| description | Very short manufacture cycle times are required if continuous carbon fibre and epoxy composite components are to be economically viable solutions for high volume composite production for the automotive industry. Here, a manufacturing process variant of resin transfer moulding (RTM), targets a reduction of in-mould manufacture time by reducing the time to inject and cure components. The process involves two stages; resin injection followed by compression. A flow simulation methodology using an RTM solver for the process has been developed. This paper compares the simulation prediction to experiments performed using industrial equipment. The issues encountered during the manufacturing are included in the simulation and their sensitivity to the process is explored. |
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| spelling | nottingham-505412020-05-08T12:00:23Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50541/ Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins Martin, Ffion A. Warrior, N.A. Simacek, Pavel Advani, Suresh Hughes, Adrian Darlington, Roger Senan, Eissa Very short manufacture cycle times are required if continuous carbon fibre and epoxy composite components are to be economically viable solutions for high volume composite production for the automotive industry. Here, a manufacturing process variant of resin transfer moulding (RTM), targets a reduction of in-mould manufacture time by reducing the time to inject and cure components. The process involves two stages; resin injection followed by compression. A flow simulation methodology using an RTM solver for the process has been developed. This paper compares the simulation prediction to experiments performed using industrial equipment. The issues encountered during the manufacturing are included in the simulation and their sensitivity to the process is explored. Springer 2018-03-03 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50541/8/10.1007%252Fs10443-018-9682-4FM.pdf Martin, Ffion A., Warrior, N.A., Simacek, Pavel, Advani, Suresh, Hughes, Adrian, Darlington, Roger and Senan, Eissa (2018) Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins. Applied Composite Materials . ISSN 1573-4897 Advanced liquid composite Moulding; RTM; Flow simulation; Fast cure epoxy resin https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10443-018-9682-4 doi:10.1007/s10443-018-9682-4 doi:10.1007/s10443-018-9682-4 |
| spellingShingle | Advanced liquid composite Moulding; RTM; Flow simulation; Fast cure epoxy resin Martin, Ffion A. Warrior, N.A. Simacek, Pavel Advani, Suresh Hughes, Adrian Darlington, Roger Senan, Eissa Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins |
| title | Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins |
| title_full | Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins |
| title_fullStr | Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins |
| title_full_unstemmed | Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins |
| title_short | Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins |
| title_sort | simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins |
| topic | Advanced liquid composite Moulding; RTM; Flow simulation; Fast cure epoxy resin |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50541/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50541/ https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50541/ |