Fiber reinforced polymer manufacturing
AssigneeRUAG Schweiz AG
InventorsJoseph Patrick Moran, Michael Stephen Pavloff
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Abstract
Method of manufacturing a product comprising fiber reinforced polymer material, the method comprising the steps of: providing 10 carbon fibers being embedded in a thermosetting resin, heating 20 the thermosetting resin up to its cure temperature by a current flowing through at least a part of said carbon fibers, letting convert 30 the thermosetting resin to a thermoset polymer. The invention is further directed to a device for performing the method and to a composite sandwich panel structure manufactured according to the method.
Claims23
A method of manufacturing a product (300) comprising fiber reinforced polymer material, the product (300) being a composite sandwich panel structure (500, 600) comprising a core (503, 603) between a first face sheet (501, 601) and a second face sheet (502, 602), the method comprising the steps of:
- providing (10) carbon fibers being embedded in a thermosetting resin,
- heating (20) the thermosetting resin up to its cure temperature by a current flowing through at least a part of said carbon fibers,
- letting convert (30) the thermosetting resin to a thermoset polymer, wherein at least one of said first face sheet and said second face sheet comprises the carbon fibers embedded in the thermoset polymer.
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