Paper number 1043

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF FLOW PHENOMENA IN COMPOSITE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

X.L. Liu

Cooperative Research Center for Advanced Composites Structures Limited
506 Lorimer Street, Fishermen's Bend, Victoria, 3207, Australia

Summary

This paper presents the development and application of a set of numerical procedures for the simulation of the flow phenomena involved in composite manufacturing processes. The procedures developed are based on a general-purpose finite element package. This not only reduces the software development time and cost but also allows the users direct access to all the features pertaining to the FE package. A number of two and three dimensional simulation examples in pre-heating of tools, liquid composite molding and pultrusion are given to demonstrate the capacity and accuracy of the procedures.

Keywords

numerical modeling, cure, heat transfer, flow, pultrusion.