The influence of tow tackiness on tow pull-up during the manufacturing of a composite pressure vessel
Alex Nedelcu (Student TU Delft)
André Mendes Mendes Florindo (TU Delft - Intelligent Manufacturing systems)
Sungi Han (TU Delft - Intelligent Manufacturing systems)
Jaap Dekker (Airborne Wind Europe)
M.J. de Vlieger (TU Delft - Structural Integrity & Composites)
Saullo G.P. Giovani Pereira Castro (TU Delft - Group Giovani Pereira Castro)
D. M.J. Daniël (TU Delft - Group Peeters)
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Abstract
Double-curved composite structures that are manufactured via automated fiber placement, such as pressure vessels, can take advantage of tow steering to reduce weight. This design freedom comes with the cost of adding internal normal stresses to the tow, possibly leading to wrinkles or pull up. The present work investigates tow pull up both experimentally and analytically and details a correlation between tow pull up and the minimum critical steering radius, where the material tackiness and the modelled plate’s length are found to be the most influential parameters. The experimental determination of the material tackiness is the next step to improve the predictive capabilities of the proposed model.
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