Smart tooling with integrated time domain reflectometry sensing line for non-invasive flow and cure monitoring during composites manufacturing

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 102-108

  Pandey, Gaurav ^a,b   Deffor, Hope ^b   Thostenson, Erik T ^a,b   Heider, Dirk ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Smart materials; D. Process monitoring; E. Resin flow; E. Tooling

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITES MANUFACTURING; CURE MONITORING; E. TOOLING; ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION; ELECTROSTATIC SIMULATIONS; FLOW MONITORING; GLASS FIBER COMPOSITES; INGRESS/EGRESS; INTEGRAL PART; INTEGRATED SENSORS; MULTIPOINT; NON-CONTACT; OPTIMAL SPACING; RESIN CURE; RESIN FLOWS; RESIN SYSTEMS; SENSOR IMPLEMENTATION; SENSOR INTEGRATION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; VACUUM ASSISTED RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING; WIRE SPACING;

ARAMID FIBERS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTRIC LINES; EXPERIMENTS; GLASS FIBERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; PROCESS MONITORING; RESINS; SENSORS; TOOLS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

CURING;

EID: 84873038376     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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