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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Polymer Science
  • Composite Manufacturing

Background:

  • Traditional woven fabrics in composites suffer from localized mechanical performance issues due to crimps.
  • Mass production of structural composites requires simplified manufacturing with high-performance polymers and custom preforming.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and optimize the vacuum-assisted resin infusion (VARI) process for low-weight carbon non-crimp fabric (NCF) composites.
  • To investigate the manufacturing of NCF composites using a room temperature cure epoxy (thermoset) and a novel liquid thermoplastic (Elium®).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized vacuum-assisted resin infusion (VARI) as a cost-effective manufacturing technique.
  • Conducted repetitive manufacturing studies to optimize process parameters for thin NCFs with thermoset (TS) and thermoplastic (TP) resins.
  • Developed and presented an optimal three-stage vacuum technique.

Main Results:

  • Optimized process parameters including flow mesh, vacuum level, and flow speed are crucial for composite quality.
  • Successfully manufactured NCF-TS and NCF-TP composites with high fiber volume and low void content.
  • The developed three-stage vacuum technique effectively addresses challenges in manufacturing thin NCF composites.

Conclusions:

  • The study established an optimized VARI process for NCF composites using both thermoset and thermoplastic matrices.
  • Controlled process parameters and a novel three-stage vacuum technique are key to achieving high-quality, low-void composites.
  • This research contributes to the mass production of advanced structural composites.