Abstract
Reinforcing textile permeability is an important material property used to better understand the infiltration phase of Liquid Composite Molding processes. A range of methods exists to determine the permeability of textile porous media all with their respective advantages. In this work, facilities to characterize the saturated and unsaturated in-plane permeability using rectilinear (1D) or radial flow (2D) methods are presented. A comparison of the in-plane permeability results obtained using each test method was carried out, together with the required testing time and material usage. Furthermore, a simulation approach to predict the permeability based on scanned images is presented.
| Translated title of the contribution | Methods to determine the permeability of textile reinforcements |
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| Original language | English |
| Pages (from-to) | 90-116 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Zeitschrift Kunststofftechnik/Journal of Plastics Technology |
| Volume | 2014 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Image processing
- Liquid composite molding
- Permeability measurement
- Radial flow method
- Rectilinear flow method