The interactions between flows occurring inside and outside fabric tows during RTM

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 587-596

  Binétruy, Christophe ^a   Hilaire, Bruno ^b   Pabiot, José ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE DOUAI   (France)

^b Delegation Generale pour l'Armement   (France)

Author keywords

Coupled flows; Permeability; Preforms; Saturated flow; Unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

FABRICS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; TRANSFER MOLDING;

COUPLED FLOWS; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING;

FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

COMPOSITES, FIBRE-REINFORCED; FABRICS, WOVEN; FLUID FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031147939     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(97)00019-5     Document Type: Article

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