Developments in Reinforced Plastics—5: Processing and FabricationG. Pritchard Any series with a title beginning Developments in. . . is obviously intended to report innovatory and novel ideas. The trouble with innovatory thinking is that it often seems too esoteric for practical people to bother with. Certainly, this book is not meant primarily to be a quick-reference manual for fabricators. Its purpose is rather to signal the kind of developments which almost certainly will impinge on the world of reinforced plastics in, say, four or five years' time. In this particular volume most of the authors have directly or indirectly addressed the practical problems of processing and fabrica tion with reinforced plastics. There has been no attempt to review the current state-of-the-art of producing fabricated articles in reinforced plastics by such techniques as filament winding or pultrusion because these subjects have already been well covered elsewhere. Nor have I even tried to provide a comprehensive survey of all that could be called new in this field. Instead, I have simply taken a number of important and somewhat underestimated topics, generally material orientated rather than machine-centred, and asked leading figures to summarise the scene. At the risk of appearing arbitrary let us consider the first chapter by Cattanach and Cogswell. They tell us how a new material has been produced which not only adds to the range of composites available, it makes possible new fabrication processes (at least, new to FRP). Consequently it should result ultimately in many new markets and products. The opportunities are lucidly and imagina tively set out. |
Contents
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Advances in the Chemistry and Applications | 39 |
Review of Prepreg Technology | 83 |
Curing Processes of Acetylene Terminated Resins | 121 |
Effect of Chemorheology on Epoxy Resin Properties | 151 |
Compressive Properties of Resins and Composites M R PIGGOTT | 169 |
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acetylene adherends adhesive amine applied autoclave B-time reduction BATQ-H behaviour bismaleimide resin bonded carbon fibre chain characteristics Chem chemical chemistry components composite materials cooling crosslinking cure cycle cure reaction curing rate deformation diluent dryer epoxy resin fabric fibre reinforced flow formulated frequency gelation glass transition temperature graphite Graphite composite heat high initial impregnation increase initial Tg injection moulding interlaminar isoimide isothermal cure joint kinetics laminates load matrix measured mechanical properties melt modulus molecular weight molecules monomers moulding process N-methylpyrrolidone National SAMPE Symp parameters plies polyimide Polym polymerisation post-cure pre-curing Prepr prepreg prepreg process prepreg weight pressure quinoxaline reactive resin content resin mixture rheology room temperature shear strength short beam shear shown in Fig solvent stress structures surface Table tape thermal thermoplastic thermosetting thermosetting resins thickness typical unidirectional graphite viscosity viscosity profiles vitrification voids