Liquid Composite Molding

Foreword

Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 Composite Materials

1.2 How Composites are Made

1.3 Summary

References

2 Fundamentals – Transport Phenomena

2.1 Flow Through Porous Media – Single Phase Flow

2.1-1 Darcy's Law and the Permeability Tensor

2.1-2 Measuring the Effective Permeability

2.1-3 Analyzing the Experiments for the Permeability Tensor

2.1-4 2-Dimensional vs. 3-Dimensional Data Analysis

2.2 Heat Transfer and Chemical Reaction in Porous Media

2.2-1 Volume Averaging

2.2-2 The Energy Balance

2.2-3 RTM

2.2-4 SRIM and the Species Equation

2.3 Rheokinetics

2.3-1 Resin Reaction Kinetics

2.3-2 The Effects of Cure on the Viscosity

References

Homework Problems

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

3 RTM Fundamentals – Reinforcement Construction

3.1 Reinforcement Materials

3.2 Getting Ready for Preforming

3.3 2-Dimensional Fabrics and Early Preforming Methods

3.3-1 Random Mats

3.3-2 Textile Fabrics

3.4 Preforming 3-Dimensional Shapes

References

Homework Problems

4 Manufacturing Composites

4.1 Design and Optimization

4.1-1 Physical Model Based Design and Optimization

4.1-2 Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm Based Design and Optimization

4.2 Tooling

4.3 Measurement and Control

4.3-1 Process Measurements

4.3-2 Process Control

References

Homework Problems

5 The Microstructure

5.1 Multi-Phase Flows

5.1-1 A Simple Model of Void Formation in LCM

5.1-2 Innovative Processing Technology for LCM

5.2 Optical Coherence Tomography

5.2-1 Instrumentation for Optical Coherence Tomography

5.2-2 OCT as a Tool to Help Predict Permeability

5.2-3 OCT for Non-Destructive Evaluation

References

Homework Problems

Subject Index