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RIFT Process Analysis for the Production of Green Composites in Flax Fibers and Bio-Based Epoxy Resin

In this work, a dual objective is carried out on composite materials in flax fiber and bio-based epoxy resin: to determine the process parameters and to develop a numerical model for highlighting the potential of and the limits in the production of “green” laminates through a RIFT process (Resin Inf...

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Autores principales: Sorrentino, Luca, Turchetta, Sandro, Parodo, Gianluca, Papa, Roberta, Toto, Elisa, Santonicola, Maria Gabriella, Laurenzi, Susanna
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9699151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36431658
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15228173
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author Sorrentino, Luca
Turchetta, Sandro
Parodo, Gianluca
Papa, Roberta
Toto, Elisa
Santonicola, Maria Gabriella
Laurenzi, Susanna
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Parodo, Gianluca
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description In this work, a dual objective is carried out on composite materials in flax fiber and bio-based epoxy resin: to determine the process parameters and to develop a numerical model for highlighting the potential of and the limits in the production of “green” laminates through a RIFT process (Resin Infusion under Flexible Tool). For these reasons, compressibility tests were performed in order to evaluate the behavior of commercial flax woven under the vacuum bag. Subsequently, permeability tests were performed in order to evaluate the permeability curves necessary for the numerical study of the infusion process. For the numerical analyses, the commercial software PAM-RTM was adopted and validated. In this work, vaseline oil was used as the injected resin for the validation, and a bio-based epoxy commercial system was used for the study of the infusion process in a simple case study. The results were compared with a petroleum-based epoxy system typically used for infusion processes, showing the potentiality and the critical use of bio-based resins for infusion processes.
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spelling pubmed-96991512022-11-26 RIFT Process Analysis for the Production of Green Composites in Flax Fibers and Bio-Based Epoxy Resin Sorrentino, Luca Turchetta, Sandro Parodo, Gianluca Papa, Roberta Toto, Elisa Santonicola, Maria Gabriella Laurenzi, Susanna Materials (Basel) Article In this work, a dual objective is carried out on composite materials in flax fiber and bio-based epoxy resin: to determine the process parameters and to develop a numerical model for highlighting the potential of and the limits in the production of “green” laminates through a RIFT process (Resin Infusion under Flexible Tool). For these reasons, compressibility tests were performed in order to evaluate the behavior of commercial flax woven under the vacuum bag. Subsequently, permeability tests were performed in order to evaluate the permeability curves necessary for the numerical study of the infusion process. For the numerical analyses, the commercial software PAM-RTM was adopted and validated. In this work, vaseline oil was used as the injected resin for the validation, and a bio-based epoxy commercial system was used for the study of the infusion process in a simple case study. The results were compared with a petroleum-based epoxy system typically used for infusion processes, showing the potentiality and the critical use of bio-based resins for infusion processes. MDPI 2022-11-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9699151/ /pubmed/36431658 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15228173 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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RIFT Process Analysis for the Production of Green Composites in Flax Fibers and Bio-Based Epoxy Resin
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