chrisegan85
Mechanical
Hello all I am new to this forum.
I have been having problems with a project as part of my studies. Your help would be greatly appreciated on this.
I am to produce composite samples (Polymer-matrix composite) using vacuum bag moulding. I have looked into the process and understand how it works and have also got the necessary materials on order but not that sure if its going to be so easy to produce the samples. Any advice/tips on this process would be great???
Also info on producing the lay-up prior to the vacuum bag moulding would be great.
The next question I have is that I will be tensile testing the samples using an instron. I will then be comparing these results to theoretical results. I am unsure about the calculations used to calculate these theoretical results for comparison. Please please help me with this as I am lost and my supervisor on this project has been useless.
I will be producing samples varying the resin used (polyester and epoxy) as well as varying the orientation of he fibres. The woven fibre will be aligned to the direction of loading and also some samples the fibres will be aligned at 45 degrees to the direction of loading. I will also be using chopped strand matting.
Hope this is not too long and that someone can help me on this.
Chris
I have been having problems with a project as part of my studies. Your help would be greatly appreciated on this.
I am to produce composite samples (Polymer-matrix composite) using vacuum bag moulding. I have looked into the process and understand how it works and have also got the necessary materials on order but not that sure if its going to be so easy to produce the samples. Any advice/tips on this process would be great???
Also info on producing the lay-up prior to the vacuum bag moulding would be great.
The next question I have is that I will be tensile testing the samples using an instron. I will then be comparing these results to theoretical results. I am unsure about the calculations used to calculate these theoretical results for comparison. Please please help me with this as I am lost and my supervisor on this project has been useless.
I will be producing samples varying the resin used (polyester and epoxy) as well as varying the orientation of he fibres. The woven fibre will be aligned to the direction of loading and also some samples the fibres will be aligned at 45 degrees to the direction of loading. I will also be using chopped strand matting.
Hope this is not too long and that someone can help me on this.
Chris