A Numerical Approach for Modelling of Polymer Curing in Fibre Reinforced Composites

• Main Authors: Joshi, Sunil Chandrakant, Liu, X. L., Lam, Yee Cheong
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Curing; Finite-element analysis; Nodal control volume; Computational simulation; Polymer-matrix composites
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80835; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38847
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper presents a procedure for using a general-purpose finite-element (FE) package for cure modeling. The package is used to carry out transient heat-transfer analysis and two user programs are developed to simulate resin-cure kinetics by using nodal control volumes based on the FE mesh. The th...