scholarly journals Decreasing the Mass of Turbomachinery Subansamblies Using Advanced Polymer Composites

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-692
Author(s):  
Raluca Maier ◽  
Sebastian Vintila ◽  
Radu Mihalache ◽  
Valeriu Vilag ◽  
Mihail Sima ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fiber ◽  
Polymer Composites ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Carbon Fiber Reinforced

The extension of use of light advanced polymer composites from structural parts of an aircraft to all kinds of components of the engine is presently very limited by the knowledge of both technological development process and materials behaviour during service. The paper comes to meet an area of interest for many researchers and large integrators and manufacturers, by presenting the first steps made into the manufacturing of a carbon fiber reinforced composite blades for a centrifugal compressor impeller. An existing metallic reference impeller was redesigned, air flow studies were achieved to establish new design performances, precursors (type, volume fraction, architecture, distribution) were defined for the CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer), stress analyses were performed on proposed structural materials configurations. Furthermore, the paper award an important section to manufacturing process stages, the manufacturing technology used and first developed trials. It was concluded that an entire impeller CFRP (Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer) manufacturing can and shall be the next step of the study, using autoclave technology.

Investigation on the effects of microstructure on machining unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites with a modified force model

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (8) ◽  
pp. 379-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianzhang Xiao ◽  
Chongyang Gao ◽  
Guifeng Wang ◽  
Pengcheng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Fiber ◽  
Polymer Composites ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Volume Element ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Reinforced Polymer ◽  
Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites ◽  
Carbon Fiber Reinforced

The paper aims to investigate the correlation of microstructural characteristics and machinability of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites by a modified analytical model. A representative volume element was selected to present the microstructure and analyze the force distribution, in which the interphase between the fiber and the matrix was considered significantly. And the microstructure can be obviously measured by using microscopic observation, especially the interphase was found to be around 0.3 μm in the used carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites. To study the representative volume element effect on the cutting behavior of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites, the prediction of cutting force was done by using a modified force model. Compared with the experiments, the developed model can well predict the cutting forces and subsurface damage in the carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites cutting. It was found that surface integrity as well as subsurface damage has a coincident varying trend with the fiber orientations, as confirmed by the observations of the machined surface at different fiber orientations. The good surface integrity can be obtained at the low fiber orientation of 0° and the poor surface occurs at the large fiber orientation of 135°. Moreover, the effect of interphase and the fiber volume fraction in representative volume element were further investigated. The results show that the cutting forces increase with increasing the fiber volume fraction as well as the interphase volume fraction, and the interphase affects the cutting force in the transverse direction is significantly higher than that in longitudinal direction.

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