AN APPROACH TO COUPLE MOLD DESIGN AND ON-LINE CONTROL TO MANUFACTURE COMPLEX COMPOSITE PARTS BY RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING

摘要

Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) has been used to manufacture advanced composite parts. In this paper, we present the design and validation of an automated RTM intelligent workstation. A new injection method, which can deliver the resin to various locations within the mold, while still allowing any individual gate to be opened or closed at any time during the filling, was designed and tested.