TY - GEN
T1 - DEPLOYABLE COMPOSITE MESHES - MODELLING, MANUFACTURE AND CHARACTERISATION
AU - Murali, Gokul Ganesh
AU - Robinson, Paul
AU - Bismarck, Alexander
AU - Burgstaller, Christoph
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Murali et al.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This paper describes the design and manufacture of a laminate which, when heated, will deploy into an expanded mesh. The design exploits the bending and/or twisting curvature that results when a non-symmetric laminate is subjected to a temperature change. To ensure the mesh laminate is almost flat after curing (i.e. prior to deployment), layups consisting of non-symmetric sublaminates separated by thermoplastic interleaves have been developed. When such a laminate is subsequently heated above the Tg of the thermoplastic layers, the mesh deploys. Two different layups are investigated; one deploys into a planar mesh and the other deploys into a mesh which forms a curved surface.
AB - This paper describes the design and manufacture of a laminate which, when heated, will deploy into an expanded mesh. The design exploits the bending and/or twisting curvature that results when a non-symmetric laminate is subjected to a temperature change. To ensure the mesh laminate is almost flat after curing (i.e. prior to deployment), layups consisting of non-symmetric sublaminates separated by thermoplastic interleaves have been developed. When such a laminate is subsequently heated above the Tg of the thermoplastic layers, the mesh deploys. Two different layups are investigated; one deploys into a planar mesh and the other deploys into a mesh which forms a curved surface.
KW - Deployment
KW - FEA
KW - Interleaved
KW - Non-symmetric
KW - Thermoplastic
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85149172950
T3 - ECCM 2022 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability
SP - 1183
EP - 1190
BT - Materials
A2 - Vassilopoulos, Anastasios P.
A2 - Michaud, Veronique
PB - Composite Construction Laboratory (CCLab), Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
T2 - 20th European Conference on Composite Materials: Composites Meet Sustainability, ECCM 2022
Y2 - 26 June 2022 through 30 June 2022
ER -