Investigation of draping and its effects on the mold filling process during manufacturing of a compound curved composite part

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 28, Issue 9-10, 1997, Pages 801-816

  Bickerton, Simon ^a   Šimáček, Pavel ^a   Guglielmi, Sarah E ^a,b   Advani, Suresh G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b W L GORE AND ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Draping; Fibers; Resin transfer molding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INTERPOLATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PLASTIC FLOW; PLASTIC MOLDS; PLASTICS FILLERS; VOLUME FRACTION;

DRAPING; PREFORM FIBER VOLUME FRACTION MEASUREMENTS; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING (RTM);

TRANSFER MOLDING;

EID: 0031335362     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-835X(97)00033-X     Document Type: Article

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