Publications associées à Pultrusion

Self-catalysed frontal polymerisation enables fast and low-energy processing of fibre reinforced polymer composites

Véronique Michaud, Jacobus Gerardus Rudolph Staal, Baris Çaglar

Frontal polymerisation has the potential to bring unprecedented reductions in energy demand and process time to produce fibre reinforced polymer composites. Production of epoxy-based fibre reinforced polymer parts with high fibre volume content, commonly e ...

2024

A life cycle analysis of novel lightweight composite processes: Reducing the environmental footprint of automotive structures

Véronique Michaud, Baris Çaglar, Colin Gomez, Vincent Werlen, Christian Rytka

In this study, three novel thermoplastic impregnation processes were analyzed towards automotive applications. The first process is thermoplastic compression resin transfer molding in which a glass fiber mat is impregnated in through thickness by a thermop ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Capillary Effects in Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Processing: A Review

Véronique Michaud, Jacobus Gerardus Rudolph Staal, Baris Çaglar, Helena Luisa Teixido Pedarros

Capillarity plays a crucial role in many natural and engineered systems, ranging from nutrient delivery in plants to functional textiles for wear comfort or thermal heat pipes for heat dissipation. Unlike nano- or microfluidic systems with well-defined por ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Functionalized Fiber Reinforced Composites via Thermally Drawn Multifunctional Fiber Sensors

Véronique Michaud, Fabien Sorin, William Nicolas Duncan Esposito, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Baris Çaglar, Dang Tùng Nguyen

Monitoring fiber reinforced polymer composites (FRPC) during their production and operation is becoming crucial to track the performance of the final parts and optimize the overall life cycle. The challenges associated with integrating multifunctional sens ...

Wiley2021

A General Framework for Pearlescent Materials

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Ibon Guillen Serrano

The unique and visually mesmerizing appearance of pearlescent materials has made them an indispensable ingredient in a diverse array of applications including packaging, ceramics, printing, and cosmetics. In contrast to their natural counterparts, such syn ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

A comparative study of mode I delamination behavior of unidirectional glass fiber-reinforced polymers with epoxy and polyurethane matrices using two methods

John Botsis, Georgios Pappas

The mode I delamination behavior of a unidirectional glass-fiber reinforced polymer with a prototype elasto-plastic polyurethane matrix (GF/PU) was investigated and compared with that of glass/epoxy (GF/EP) using double cantilever beam specimens. Fracture ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

3D spacers enhance flow kinetics in resin transfer molding with woven fabrics

Véronique Michaud, Baris Çaglar, Damiano Salvatori

Impregnation time in Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) is directly proportional to resin viscosity and inversely proportional to fabric permeability, limiting the use of high-viscosity resins with conventional reinforcements. In this study, we show how to reduc ...

2019

Hybrid Processing of Thermoplastic Based Multimaterials

Rajasundar Chandran

There is a growing interest in exploring novel material combinations and processing technology to manufacture complex 3D shaped polymer and composite structures. In the field of prosthetics and orthotics, this need is significant with additional challenges ...

EPFL2017

Fracture mechanics-based progressive damage modelling of adhesively bonded fibre-reinforced polymer joints

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Moslem Shahverdi, Roohollah Sarfaraz Khabbaz, Aida Cameselle Molares

A quasi-static progressive damage model for prediction of the fracture behaviour and strength of adhesively bonded fibre-reinforced polymer joints is introduced in this paper. The model is based on the development of a mixed-mode failure criterion as a fun ...

Wiley2017

Curing kinetics and thermomechanical properties of latent epoxy/carbon fiber composites

Véronique Michaud, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Sara Dalle Vacche

In this work, resins based on diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) epoxy and a latent hardener, dicyandiamide (DICY), as well as carbon fiber (CF) composites based on them, were prepared with three commercial accelerators: a methylene bis (phenyl dimeth ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016