Compaction of textile reinforcements for composites manufacturing. I: Review of experimental results

As new developments are brought to the group of manufacturing processes for composite parts known as liquid composites molding (LCM), the compaction behavior of the textile reinforcements is increasingly seen as an important parameter of the definition of these processes. The evolution of the permeability tensor of the reinforcements with time, the general kinetics of the manufacturing operations, and the modelization of these processes depend on a large extent on the compaction behavior of the reinforcements used, especially in flexible-wall RTM and autoclave molding. Also, more research efforts are devoted toward the development of a complete analytical model of the properties of heterogeneous textile reinforcements. In this paper the published experimental data related to the compaction and relaxation of random mats and woven reinforcements are gathered. Observed parameters are defined, which allow numerical comparisons of the experimental curves to be made, as well as the identification of general trends seen with most tested reinforcements. The effects of various processing parameters are identified, and relations to published analytical models of the mechanical properties of fibrous assemblies are discussed.

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