Modeling of thermoplastic pultrusion

Pultrusion is a manufacturing technique allowing to produce constant cross section beams of fiber reinforced plastics. The main challenge of pultruding thermoplastic composite is to impregnate the fiber bed with the high viscosity thermoplastic matrix. The goal of this research project is to use two existing models to model the pultrusion of thermoplastic composites. Mainly to correlate the processing parameters to the impregnation quality of the composite. This model could be used as a design tool for future pultrusion installations or used to reduce the amount of experiments necessary to produce good quality parts. At the end of this research project, a model of the pultrusion would be adapted to the pultrusion system present at Professor Nakai laboratory, and numerical results will be supported by experimental results to validate the model.

Faculty Supervisor:

Louis Laberge Lebel

Student:

Partner:

Gifu University

Discipline:

Engineering

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University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award