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JOURNAL OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Volume 41, Issue 7, Pages 851-864Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0021998306067064
Keywords
spring-back; fiber-reinforced composite materials; hybrid composite; web-based service; mold fabrication
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Fiber-reinforced composite materials have been advanced in various applications for their excellent mechanical and electromagnetic properties. On their manufacturing processes, however, thermo-curing inherently produces the undesired thermal deformation, so-called spring-back, mainly caused by temperature drop from the process temperature to room temperature. In order to fabricate designed part geometry, the spring-back must be understood especially in hybrid composites consisting of distinct groups of different materials. In this research, the spring-back of a hybrid composite beam is measured by a series of experiments, and is predicted by the classical lamination theory (CLT) and finite element analysis (ANSYS). To confirm the predicted spring-back, {glass fiber/epoxy} + {carbon fiber/epoxy} asymmetric hybrid composites are fabricated under various conditions such as cure cycle, laminate thickness, stacking sequence, and curing sequence. The results from CLT and FEA agree well with the experimental data, but the spring-back cannot be removed completely. To fabricate flat hybrid composite beams, a web-based spring-back compensation service is developed. The CLT-based code allows the user to predict spring-back and to fabricate a mold that compensates spring-back.
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