Variation of part thickness and compaction pressure in vacuum infusion process

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 11-12, 2009, Pages 1710-1719

  Yenilmez, Bekir ^a   Senan, Murat ^a   Murat Sozer, E ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

B. Modelling; Compaction; Fabric characterization experiments; Monitoring part thickness; Resin flow

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; APPLIED SCIENCE; B. MODELLING; COMPACTION PRESSURE; COMPOSITE PARTS; DIMENSIONAL TOLERANCE; EMBEDDED CORES; FABRIC LAYER; FABRIC PREFORM; IN-VACUUM; MODEL RESULTS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; REALISTIC MODEL; RESIN FLOW; RESIN INFUSION PROCESS; RESIN INJECTION; RESIN PRESSURE; TWO-MATERIALS; VACUUM INFUSION MOLDING PROCESS; VACUUM PRESSURE;

COMPACTION; EXPERIMENTS; FABRICS; PREFORMING; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING; RESINS; TRANSDUCERS; UNLOADING; VACUUM; VACUUM TECHNOLOGY;

THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

COMPACTING; COMPOSITE; MOLDING; MONITORING; PERMEABILITY; REINFORCED FABRIC; SYNTHETIC RESIN;

EID: 67649105265     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2008.05.009     Document Type: Article

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