Analyzing pros and cons of two composite manufacturing methods
Friday, July 31, 2020 - 07:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Airplane wings, wind turbine blades, and other large parts are typically created using bulk polymerization in composite manufacturing facilities. They are heated and cured in enormous autoclaves and heated molds as big as the finished part. Frontal polymerization is a new out-of-autoclave method for composite manufacturing that doesn't require a large facility investment. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducted a study pitting one process against the other to discover the pros and cons of each.