Sentence examples for autoclave processing from inspiring English sources

The residual stresses that develop in fibre-reinforced laminates during autoclave processing while the laminate is confined to the process tool often lead to dimensional changes such as spring-in of angles and warpage of flat sections.

Even carefully controlled, on-line processing, which is superior to standard autoclave processing in a number of ways, is not immune to the development of process-induced defects.

This chapter discusses the state-of-the art of autoclave processing of polymer composites.

Autoclave processing is one of the oldest and most widely used processing methods for high-performance composite materials.

Models for management of volatiles and resin flow during autoclave processing of long fiber thermoplastics composites are developed and described.

The poor compressibility can lower the achievable fibre volume fraction in composite for economical vacuum assisted light-RTM techniques and increase the pressure requirements in autoclave processing.

A strategy is presented to optimize out-of-autoclave processing of quasi-isotropic carbon fiber-reinforced laminates.

As part of the current search for cost reduction, integrally-heated tooling is one of the technologies available for 'out-of-autoclave' processing of advanced thermoset polymer composites.

Quickstep™ is a novel polymer composite manufacturing technique designed for the out-of-autoclave processing of high-quality, low-cost components with a reduction in cure cycle times.

When compared to the autoclave process, the out-of-autoclave process resulted in a 52% reduction in processing time, without any sacrifice to the matrix intrinsic properties.

This paper assesses the use of the Quickstep method for the processing of an epoxy/carbon fibre aerospace material and compares this to equivalent composites produced using an autoclave process.