Graduation Semester and Year
2011
Language
English
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering
Department
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
First Advisor
Donald Liles
Abstract
Thick structural composite parts often use press curing with closed-cavity tooling for achieving dimensional tolerances. A commonly encountered defect for these parts is fiber waviness, whick limits its structural strength. The yield for such parts often suffers due to trial and error methods used to develop successful cure processes. In addition, yield for these parts suffers due to material variation. The objectives of this research were to: develop and validate a simplified yet practical cure process model for press cured thick composite parts, utilize the model in order to seek time-efficient optimized cure processes, investigate the effects of material variation on optimized cure processes, and to utilize the model to investigate the origins of fiber waviness. The model was found to indicate the conditions under which it is likely that fiber waviness occurs.
Disciplines
Engineering | Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Saunders, Arven H., "Process Modeling System For Press Cure, Closed-cavity Tooled Thick Composites" (2011). Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Dissertations. 31.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/industrialmanusys_dissertations/31
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington