Numerical and experimental analysis of resin-flow, heat-transfer, and cure in a resin-injection pultrusion process

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Michael Sandberg Technical University of Denmark
O. Yuksel University of Twente
Ismet Baran University of Twente
Jesper H. Hattel Technical University of Denmark
Jon Spangenberg Technical University of Denmark
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Non-isothermal flow Liquid composite moulding Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) Polyurethane resin Resin-injection pultrusion
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2021

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English

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This paper concerns non-isothermal flow in a thermoset resin-injection pultrusion process. Supported by temperature measurements from an industrial pultrusion line and a material characterisation study (curing kinetics, chemorheology, and permeability), the material flow was analysed for the manufacture of a thick glass-fibre profile saturated with a pultrusion-specific polyurethane resin. A central finding is that the heating configuration, together with the strongly convective flow near inlets resulted in phase transitions that were both concave and convex-shaped. This is different from existing literature that commonly describes curing being initiated from die-walls, resulting in the concave phase-transitions.