Simulation of the resin film infusion process based on the finite element method

Abstract

A physically accurate and computationally effective pure finite element method (FEM) was developed to simulate the isothermal resin infusing process. The FEM was based on conservation of resin mass at any instant of time and was objective of resin film infusion (RFI) fiber impregnation and mold filling. The developed computer code was able to simulate the resin infusing visually. A numerical example presented here demonstrated that compared with traditional finite element/control-volume (FE/CV), and FEM was physically accurate and computationally efficient.

Keywords

resin film infusion / finite element method / control-volume/finite element

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