TY - JOUR
T1 - Numerical and experimental analysis of resin-flow, heat-transfer, and cure in a resin-injection pultrusion process
AU - Sandberg, Michael
AU - Yuksel, Onur
AU - Baran, Ismet
AU - Hattel, Jesper H.
AU - Spangenberg, Jon
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research ? Technology and Production Sciences (Grant No. DFF-6111-00112: Modelling the multi-physics in resin injection pultrusion (RIP) of complex industrial profiles). The first author would like to acknowledge the assistance he received from doctoral students Ayyoub Kabachi and Maximilian Volk with conducting the permeability experiments during a research stay at CMASLab (ETH Z?rich).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - This paper concerns non-isothermal flow in a thermoset resin-injection pultrusion process. Supported by temperature measurements from an industrial pultrusion line and a material characterisation study (curing kinetics, chemorheology, and permeability), the material flow was analysed for the manufacture of a thick glass-fibre profile saturated with a pultrusion-specific polyurethane resin. A central finding is that the heating configuration, together with the strongly convective flow near inlets resulted in phase transitions that were both concave and convex-shaped. This is different from existing literature that commonly describes curing being initiated from die-walls, resulting in the concave phase-transitions.
AB - This paper concerns non-isothermal flow in a thermoset resin-injection pultrusion process. Supported by temperature measurements from an industrial pultrusion line and a material characterisation study (curing kinetics, chemorheology, and permeability), the material flow was analysed for the manufacture of a thick glass-fibre profile saturated with a pultrusion-specific polyurethane resin. A central finding is that the heating configuration, together with the strongly convective flow near inlets resulted in phase transitions that were both concave and convex-shaped. This is different from existing literature that commonly describes curing being initiated from die-walls, resulting in the concave phase-transitions.
U2 - 10.1016/j.compositesa.2020.106231
DO - 10.1016/j.compositesa.2020.106231
M3 - Article
VL - 143
JO - Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
JF - Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
SN - 1359-835X
M1 - 106231
ER -