MATS324C5 HLUspray.pptVIP

Contact moulding: spray and hand lamination techniques John Summerscales Outline of lecture Spray techniques Hand lamination Vacuum bagging Spray techniques Spray techniques hand-held ‘gun’ feeds a stream of chopped fibres into a spray of catalysed liquid resin. stream projected onto the mould tool. deposited materials left to cure under standard atmospheric conditions. fibres normally settle onto the tool in a random (quasi-planar) orientation composite mechanical properties limited by discontinuous fibres (ηl 1), random fibre orientation (ηo =3/8), and no significant consolidation pressu