Recent developments encompassing non-isothermal/isothermal liquid composite molding process modeling/analysis: Physically accurate, computationally effective, and affordable simulations and validations

Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 493-532

  Ngo, N D ^a   Mohan, R V ^a   Chung, P W ^a   Tamma, K K ^a   Shires, D R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW PATTERNS; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PLASTIC FLOW; PLASTIC MOLDS; POLYMERIZATION; REACTION KINETICS; VISCOSITY;

REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENT (RVE); RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING (RTM);

TRANSFER MOLDING;

EID: 0032205968     PISSN: 08927057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089270579801100602     Document Type: Article

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