Textured Approach for Joining a Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) to a Base Material
AssigneeKTH Parts Industries, Inc.
InventorAnoop SAMANT
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Abstract
A texture is provided on a base material to assist flow of polymer matrix material from the fiber reinforced polymer into the base material. The textured surface may include a pattern of features such as knurls, depressions, ridges, asperities, cross-hatches, parallel or non-parallel lines, star shapes, triangles, hexagons, etc. The texture can be on one or both surfaces of the base material. The texture may be imprinted into the base material via, for example squeezing, machining, pressing, forming, knurling, stamping, etching, forging, cutting, rolling, or other imprinting processes.
Claims10
A method of joining a Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) to a base material comprising the steps of texturing a first surface of the base material, placing the FRP on the textured surface of the base material, and melting polymer in the FRP and allowing the melted polymer to flow into textures in the textured surface, and cooling the polymer to a solid state to join the FRP to the base material.
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