Flow and Cure Monitoring of Resin Infusion Processes

8 Flow and cure monitoring of resin infusion processes 

Flow and cure monitoring is a vital aspect of composites manufacture and being able to recognize the position and extent of the cure is important, as resin flow is responsible for the 

Dielectric cure monitoring is based on the traditional AC excitation of the Uquid resin, where one system uses an electrode sensor embedded in the resin (embedded inter-digitated IDEX) and the other uses a reusable tool mounted sensor (tool mount sensor TMS). The dipoles in the resin system orient as a function of cure, enabhng an assessment to be made of viscosity changes, loss factor and state of cure. 

SMARTweave [82,83] is very useful for molding thick parts and can be used with RTM, SCRIMP , vacuum assisted RTM and other resin infusion processes. 

Composites Machines Company Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 

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