Advances in Composites Manufacturing and Process Design

The manufacturing processes of composite materials are numerous and often complex. Continuous research into the subject area has made it hugely relevant with new advances enriching our understanding and helping us overcome design and manufacturing challenges. Advances in Composites Manufacturing and Process Design provides comprehensive coverage of all processing techniques in the field with a strong emphasis on recent advances, modeling and simulation of the design process.

Part One reviews the advances in composite manufacturing processes and includes detailed coverage of braiding, knitting, weaving, fibre placement, draping, machining and drilling, and 3D composite processes. There are also highly informative chapters on thermoplastic and ceramic composite manufacturing processes, and repairing composites. The mechanical behaviour of reinforcements and the numerical simulation of composite manufacturing processes are examined in Part Two. Chapters examine the properties and behaviour of textile reinforcements and resins. The final chapters of the book investigate finite element analysis of composite forming, numerical simulation of flow processes, pultrusion processes and modeling of chemical vapour infiltration processes.

Outlines the advances in the different methods of composite manufacturing processesProvides extensive information on the thermo-mechanical behavior of reinforcements and composite prepregsReviews numerical simulations of forming and flow processes, as well as pultrusion processes and modeling chemical vapor infiltration

Preface

Part One: Advances in composite manufacturing processes

1 Braiding processes for composites manufacture

2 Knitting processes for composites manufacture

3 Weaving processes for composites manufacture

4 Fibre placement processes for composites manufacture

5 Draping processes for composites manufacture

6 Thermoplastic composites manufacturing by thermoforming

7 Three-dimensional composite manufacturing processes

8 Chemical vapour deposition/infiltration processes for ceramic composites

9 Machining and drilling processes in composites manufacture: damage and material integrity

10 Repairing composites

Part Two: Mechanical behaviour of reinforcements and numerical simulation of processes in composites manufacturing

11 Mechanical properties of textile reinforcements for composites

12 Mechanical behaviour of non crimp fabric (NCF) preforms in composite materials manufacturing

13 Epoxy/amine reactive systems for composites materials and their thermo-mechanical properties

14 Finite element analysis of composite forming at macroscopic and mesoscopic scale

15 Numerical simulation of flow processes in composites manufacturing

16 Pultrusion processes for composite manufacture

17 Modeling of chemical vapour infiltration (CVI) processes