Until recently, pultrusion process optimization was limited to a production floor engineering task. Technical pultruders have learned to determien the optimum speed and die temperature profile through utilization of a variety of on-line experimental characterization procedures which reveal the position of reaction within the pultrusion die. While effective when applied properly, this production floor procedure is time consuming and resource intensive. Ideally, the optimization procedure should occur in the off-line engineering environment and through computer assisted simulation and optimization algorithms.
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