Development of a Variable Frequency Microwave Processing System for Post-Curingof Thermoset Polymer Matrix Composite Materials

摘要

Using a Variable frequency Microwave Furnace (VFMF) technology, LambdaTechnologies has demonstrated the ability to tune to the optimum incident frequency for best coupling into a given material structure (e.g., polymer matrix composite, PMC), and then by sweeping around that incident center frequency, producing uniform energy distribution throughout the cavity and sample volume. Hence, the advantages of microwave energy---enhanced reaction rates, reduced process time, and heat generation at the molecular level---are now obtainable with controlled and uniform results compatible for commercial scale-up. The