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Effects of manufacturing on the structural performance of composites in vacuum assisted resin transfer molding
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Materials and Production, Polymeric Materials and Composites. National University of Singapore, Singapore.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9507-3023
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2023 (English)In: Journal of reinforced plastics and composites (Print), ISSN 0731-6844, E-ISSN 1530-7964, Vol. 42, p. 264-Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This work focuses on developing a seamlessly integrated modeling platform for manufacturing, designing, and analyzing fiber-reinforced composite structures. The manufacturing method is vacuum assisted resin transfer molding, and the analysis method is the finite element method. The unique integration of two commercial software (Moldex3D and ABAQUS) with additional interfaces and physics-based micromechanics enables variabilities during the manufacturing to be directly embedded into the structural analysis. The manufacturing output is the resin pressure which is used to predict the compaction pressure and calculate local fiber volume fractions. The predicted non-uniform volume fractions provide local mechanical properties allowing seamless transfer of process effects and properties variability to the final structural analysis. Three demonstrators are presented as examples for simulation and validation against experiments, both in manufacturing and structural performance. The results show very good agreement between simulations and experiments regarding resin flow times and measurements (within 17%) and demonstrators’ structural stiffness (within 15%). © The Author(s) 2022.

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SAGE Publications Ltd , 2023. Vol. 42, p. 264-
Keywords [en]
integrated simulation routine, Mechanical properties, mechanical testing, micromechanics, vacuum infusion, ABAQUS, Fiber reinforced plastics, Resin transfer molding, Resins, Structural analysis, Vacuum applications, Volume fraction, Fibre reinforced composite structures, In-vacuum, Integrated modeling, Integrated simulations, Manufacturing methods, Modeling platforms, Structural performance, Vacuum assisted resin transfer molding
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-60062DOI: 10.1177/07316844221118691Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85135953320OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-60062DiVA, id: diva2:1699981
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Funding details: A19C1a0044, NUS WBS R265000673305, PMCP – WP1-1; Funding details: Agency for Science, Technology and Research, A*STAR; Funding text 1: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research is supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) under Polymer Matrix Composites Programme (PMCP – WP1-1) project through Grant no. A19C1a0044 (NUS WBS R265000673305).

Available from: 2022-09-29 Created: 2022-09-29 Last updated: 2023-07-03Bibliographically approved

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