Designing, controlling, and visualizing composite material manufacturing

Author

Shires, Dale R. ; Green, W. ; Walsh, Steve

Volume

4

Issue

4

fYear

2002

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

91

Abstract

We have developed a visualization tool for monitoring and displaying resin flow during the fabrication of composite laminates. The tool integrates network-based data acquisition, fast finite element based reconstruction (smoothing) and contouring algorithms, and scientific visualization. It helps users better understand the design process and will be at the center of our intelligent design and control manufacturing system

Keywords

composite materials; computerised monitoring; data acquisition; data visualisation; engineering graphics; finite element analysis; moulding; process monitoring; production control; production engineering computing; composite laminate fabrication; control; fast finite element based contouring algorithms; fast finite element based reconstruction algorithms; intelligent composite manufacturing paradigm; monitoring; network-based data acquisition; resin flow; scientific visualization; visualization tool; Composite materials; Data acquisition; Data visualization; Fabrication; Finite element methods; Laminates; Monitoring; Process design; Resins; Smoothing methods;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computing in Science & Engineering

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1521-9615

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCISE.2002.1014987

Filename

1014987