Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins

Martin, Ffion A.; Warrior, N.A.; Simacek, Pavel; Advani, Suresh; Hughes, Adrian; Darlington, Roger; Senan, Eissa

Abstract

Very short manufacture cycle times are required if continuous carbon fibre and epoxy composite components are to be economically viable solutions for high volume composite production for the automotive industry. Here, a manufacturing process variant of resin transfer moulding (RTM), targets a reduction of in-mould manufacture time by reducing the time to inject and cure components. The process involves two stages; resin injection followed by compression. A flow simulation methodology using an RTM solver for the process has been developed. This paper compares the simulation prediction to experiments performed using industrial equipment. The issues encountered during the manufacturing are included in the simulation and their sensitivity to the process is explored.

Citation

Martin, F. A., Warrior, N., Simacek, P., Advani, S., Hughes, A., Darlington, R., & Senan, E. (2019). Simulation and validation of injection-compression filling stage of liquid moulding with fast curing resins. Applied Composite Materials, 26(1), 41–63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-018-9682-4

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 8, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Mar 23, 2018
• Publication Date: 2019-02
• Deposit Date: Mar 20, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 23, 2018
• Journal: Applied Composite Materials
• Print ISSN: 0929-189X
• Electronic ISSN: 1573-4897
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41–63
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10443-018-9682-4
• Keywords: Advanced liquid composite Moulding; RTM; Flow simulation; Fast cure epoxy resin
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/918710
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10443-018-9682-4
• Contract Date: Mar 20, 2018