Simulation of heat transfer and cure in pultrusion with a general-purpose finite element package

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 857-864

  Lin Liu, Xiao ^a   Crouch, I G ^b   Lam, Y C ^c  

^a 506 Lorimer Street ^*  (Australia)

^b 174 Young Street   (Australia)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

B. Curing; C. Computational simulation; C. Finite element analysis; E. Pultrusion; Heat transfer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESINS; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION; CONTROL VOLUME PROCEDURE;

PULTRUSION;

COMPOSITE; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 0142073194     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(99)00189-X     Document Type: Article

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