%0 Generic
%A Pantelelis, Nikos
%A Nedelec, Gilles
%A Amosse, Yannick
%A Toitgans, Marc Philippe
%A Beigbeder, Alexandre
%A Harismendy, Isabel
%A Mezzacasa, Ricardo
%A Zhang, Jie
%A Bistekos, Efthymios
%T Industrial cure monitoring and control of the RTM production of a CFRP automotive component
%J ECCM 2012 - Composites at Venice, Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Composite Materials
%D 2012
%U https://hdl.handle.net/11556/1666
%X A self-learning process monitoring and automatic control system has been developed to provide optimal and straightforward solutions for a wide range of resins and applications without particular investment and knowledge from the manufacturers' side. Three different liquid moulding applications were used as the testing bed for the technologies covering a wide range of processing conditions (polyesters and epoxies, fast and slow cure cycles, carbon and glass fibres) with products from automotive to composite bridges. At the first application in high-speed RTM, the new system did prove its advantages in monitoring and control an RTM epoxy CFRP production achieving acceleration of more than 10% in existing production and potentially up to 40% through an additional optimisation step.
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