Applicability of fiber Bragg grating sensors for cure monitoring in resin transfer molding processes
JOURNAL OF REINFORCED PLASTICS AND COMPOSITES(2021)
摘要
This article examines the use of fiber Bragg grating sensors for cure monitoring purposes in resin transfer molding processes. Within a resin transfer molding test series a thermoset epoxy-amine resin system was used in combination with a woven flax fiber reinforcement. Particular attention was paid on the location of the optical fiber sensor and its sensitive Bragg grating element inside the mold cavity. Three different installation approaches were tested and the correlation of the corresponding strain response with the actual cure state of the resin system was investigated at 50 degrees C and 70 degrees C isothermal cure temperature, respectively. We could demonstrate that characteristic, conspicuous strain changes are directly related to the sol-gel conversion of the thermoset polymer, which was analyzed considering different approaches for the gel-point detection based on rheological measurements. With the installation of the sensor inside a controllable, capsuled resin volume, we could achieve the most reliable strain response that provides capabilities to give in-situ information of the cure state beyond the gelation point.
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Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor,thermosetting resin,cure behavior,resin transfer molding (RTM)
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