Vol. 57 No. 1 (2020) New Products & Technologies
| Derivation of Low-cost and High-speed Forming of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic |
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Yukio Takeuchi,
Kosuke Ikeda,
Wataru Nishimura,
Yusuke Yanase,
Kazutoshi Yokoo |
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Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) is used for purposes which require high specific intensity, but the materials and molding for CFRP are relatively expensive in general and molding takes a long time. This research applies the pultrusion method utilized in Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) to CFRP, aiming to achieve low-cost and high-speed molding. In addition, we conducted a simulation of the viscosity distribution of resin inside the mold in order to extract the optimum molding conditions with the minimum number of prototypes. As a result, we successfully molded a satisfactory CFRP prismatic pipe after only 2 prototypes. |
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