MANUFACTURING HUB

The Composites HUB hosts all composites resources online, provides browser-based access to composites software in the cloud, facilitates pervasive and accelerated learning of composites through 7/24 user interactions, establishes and promotes "Best Practices" for composites design and manufacturing... The process for developing new manufacturing simulation tools remains in its infancy. Unlike design simulation software, the manufacturing of polymer composite materials and structures involves multi-physics phenomena such as the curing reactions of thermoset polymers, melting and solidification of thermoplastic polymers, flow and impregnation of viscous polymers in fibrous preforms and tows, consolidation of fiber preforms, conduction and convective heat transfer, geometric conformation of fiber preforms to curvilinear surfaces, residual deformations due to anisotropy in thermal expansion and tooling-composite thermal interactions. These phenomena span the disciplines of polymer..

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