LEFFICIENT AND VERSATILE 3D WOVEN COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING: NOVEL APPROACHES ON THE QUALITY OF COMPOSITE FABRICATION

Muhammed Ali Vural; Emir Karci; Melisa Dincer; Mert Celikturk; Ibrahim Halil Sahin; Burak Yatkin; Cagin Emre; Basak Ozkendirci; Elif Ozden Yenigun; Hulya Cebeci

LEFFICIENT AND VERSATILE 3D WOVEN COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING: NOVEL APPROACHES ON THE QUALITY OF COMPOSITE FABRICATION

Muhammed Ali Vural, Emir Karci, Melisa Dincer, Mert Celikturk, Ibrahim Halil Sahin, Burak Yatkin, Cagin Emre, Basak Ozkendirci, Elif Ozden Yenigun, Hulya Cebeci

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Abstract

The complex and hollow nature of 3D spacer fabrics require novel approaches to achieve efficient transfer of resin to the structure with a uniform fashion. In this work, a custom-built spray system is designed and built to achive an effective wetting of 3D I-beam fabrics for a high-quality composite manufacturing of a spacer structure. The spray-wetted 3D I-beam composites were manufactured with a custom-designed 3D molding for 600 TEX glass fiber and epoxy resin. Since achieving high-quality composites is essential to accomplish the required mechanical characteristics, the 3D I-beam composites fabricated with vacuum infused process were also compared with spray-wetted and molded specimens. The quality of both specimens was evaluated by optical microscopy images for void content and the results clearly demonstrated a higher void content of 5, 65 times more for spray wetted specimens compared to produced ones with vacuum infusion. The results of the three-point bending tests were in line with the calculated void content. 3-point bending results of vacuum infused 3D composites were measured as 13, 3 MPa where the spray-wetted 3D composites presented as 11, 6 MPa.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Materials
Editors	Anastasios P. Vassilopoulos, Veronique Michaud
Publisher	Composite Construction Laboratory (CCLab), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Pages	532-538
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9782970161400
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability, ECCM 2022 - Lausanne, Switzerland Duration: 26 Jun 2022 → 30 Jun 2022

Publication series

Name	ECCM 2022 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability
Volume	1

Conference

Conference	20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability, ECCM 2022
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Lausanne
Period	26/06/22 → 30/06/22

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Vural et al.

Funding

This study was funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK: project number 218M703 (218M704)) 1003 Primary Subjects R&D Funding Program. The authors would also like to thank to the conference funding for M.Ali Vural provided by TUBITAK 2244-A Support Program for Participation in Abroad Scientific Events.

Funders	Funder number
Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu	218M703, 218M704

Keywords

3D weaving
composite quality
flexural strength
structural composite
woven preform

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Vural, M. A., Karci, E., Dincer, M., Celikturk, M., Sahin, I. H., Yatkin, B., Emre, C., Ozkendirci, B., Yenigun, E. O., & Cebeci, H. (2022). LEFFICIENT AND VERSATILE 3D WOVEN COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING: NOVEL APPROACHES ON THE QUALITY OF COMPOSITE FABRICATION. In A. P. Vassilopoulos, & V. Michaud (Eds.), Materials (pp. 532-538). (ECCM 2022 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability; Vol. 1). Composite Construction Laboratory (CCLab), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Vural, Muhammed Ali ; Karci, Emir ; Dincer, Melisa et al. / LEFFICIENT AND VERSATILE 3D WOVEN COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING : NOVEL APPROACHES ON THE QUALITY OF COMPOSITE FABRICATION. Materials. editor / Anastasios P. Vassilopoulos ; Veronique Michaud. Composite Construction Laboratory (CCLab), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2022. pp. 532-538 (ECCM 2022 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability).

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LEFFICIENT AND VERSATILE 3D WOVEN COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING: NOVEL APPROACHES ON THE QUALITY OF COMPOSITE FABRICATION

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