In-plane and Out-of-plane Characteristics of Three-dimensional Textile Composites

Abstract

In an effort to achieve high performance and low cost manufacturing of composite structures, this study focuses on the resin film infusion (RFI) process and the three-dimensional (3-D) textile preform, which consists of in-plane and out-of-plane fibers for the near net-shape. Bismaleimide resin system is selected for the RFI process. In this study, the fundamental properties of 3-D textile composites under room temperature and dry conditions are characterized and compared with those of two-dimensional laminate composites of the same resin system. The 3-D textile composites show 0-13% lower in-plane properties, but 10-47% higher properties for open-hole and impact damage.

Keywords

resin film infusion (RFI)textile reinforcement mechanical properties

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