WIT Press

Integrated Product And Process Design (IPPD) For Resin Transfer Molded (RTM) Parts

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

16

Pages

11

Published

1996

Size

71 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/AI960221

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

J. Spoerre, B. Wang, C. Zhang, R.S. Parnas

Abstract

Composite materials have gained increasing attention in the past several years due to their superior mechanical properties and improved strength-to-weight ratio over traditional materials. Resin transfer molding (RTM) is an attractive composite processing method due to its potential for providing consistently superior parts at a lower cost than other manufacturing techniques. The RTM process involves a large number of variables that are strongly related to the system performance, for example mold fill

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