What Is The Curved Panel Fabrication Process

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Curved panel fabrication The curved panel fabrication process flow is demonstrated in figure 4.1. It involves four essential steps namely material preparation, core fabrication, binding of core and bottom face sheet and covering the core with top face sheet after filling the granular aerogels in it. Using the following fabrication procedure, 3 panels were fabricated and named as panel 1, panel 2 and panel 3. Throughout the fabrication process all the safety measures were followed as instructed by the manufacturer (Appendix B). The detailed step by step fabrication procedure of the sandwich panel is as follows Step-1: Material preparation As the BMI-GFRP prepreg (pre impregnated resin) HTM556 is stored in the freezer at -18℃, …show more content…

Since it is a flat panel, the final complete curing of the panel is done with vacuum bagging. Pictorial representation of vacuum bagging is illustrated in figure (source: HTM556 high temperature BMI matrix system data sheet). All the consumable materials for vacuum bagging had to withstand a 190℃ curing cycle. The specifications and procedure for vacuum bagging is performed according to the manufacturer (Appendix). Step-1: Core making Similar to curved panel core making, first a thin sheet of non-porous teflon peel ply sheet is wrapped around the hexagonal core mould cell and around it small strips os BMI-GFRP prepreg is wound twice so as to have 4 ply thickness upon curing. After wrapping the prepreg properly, the hexagonal mould cells are arranged tightly and held together by enclosing the edges with small Aluminum bars. The assembly undergoes an intermediate curing cycle as illustrated in figure. Likewise three cores were made with different thicknesses (15 mm, 20 mm and 25 mm) in order to study the effect of thickness in thermal

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