Permeability and compressibility of CNT/CNF grafted reinforcements

Lomov, Stepan V. and Beyers, Lesley and Gorbatikh, Larissa and Verpoest, Ignaas and Koissin, Vitaly and Kotanjac, Zeljko and Karahan, Mehmet (2010) Permeability and compressibility of CNT/CNF grafted reinforcements. In: 10th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials, FPCM 2010, July 11-15, 2010, Ascona, Switserland.

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Abstract:	The paper studies compressibility and permeability of a CNT/CNF-grafted woven carbon reinforcement. It is shown that the pressure needed to achieve the target fibre volume fraction of the perform increases drastically when CNT/CNF are present in the preform. This can lower the achievable fibre volume fraction for economical vacuum assisted light-RTM manufacturing and increase the pressure requirements in autoclave processing. The permeability of the preform is found to be non-affected by the presence of CNT/CNF.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Faculty:	Engineering Technology (CTW) Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Chair:	Production Technology (PT)
Research Group:	Design, Production and Management (DPM) Catalytic Processes and Materials (CPM)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/75532
Conference URL:	http://www.fpcm10.ch/
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