Elevated-temperature vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding process for high performance aerospace composites

Polymer International

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1465-1476

  Menta, Venkatagireesh ^a   Vuppalapati, Ramabhadraraju ^a   Chandrashekhara, K ^a   Schuman, Thomas ^b   Sha, Jilun ^c  

^a University of Missouri Rolla   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite manufacturing; Elevated temperature; Finite element analysis; Flow simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ENVIRONMENT; FINITE ELEMENT PACKAGES; TEMPERATURE APPLICATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VACUUM ASSISTED RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING; VACUUM-ASSISTED RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING PROCESS;

ABAQUS; AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW SIMULATION; MANUFACTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESINS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING;

EID: 84883554352     PISSN: 09598103     EISSN: 10970126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pi.4444     Document Type: Article

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