Effect of compaction and preforming parameters on the compaction behavior of bindered textile preforms for automated composite manufacturing

Applied Composite Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 907-926

  Wu, Wangqing ^a,c   Jiang, Binyan ^c   Xie, Lei ^d   Klunker, Florian ^a,b   Aranda, Santiago ^a   Ziegmann, Gerhard ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Mechanical Systems (IMES)   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

A. Compaction behavior; B. Taguchi method; C. Bindered textile preforms; E. Composites manufacturing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION TEMPERATURES; COMPACTION BEHAVIOR; COMPACTION EXPERIMENTS; COMPACTION TEMPERATURE; COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING; COMPOSITES MANUFACTURING; FIBER VOLUME FRACTIONS; TEXTILE PREFORMS;

BINDERS; EXPERIMENTS; MANUFACTURE; PREFORMING; TAGUCHI METHODS; TEXTILES;

COMPACTION;

EID: 84885954065     PISSN: 0929189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10443-012-9308-1     Document Type: Article

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