摘要:
A powder composition suitable for use in laser sintering for printing a three-dimensional object, the powder composition comprising; a polyaryletherketone (PAEK) powder having a plurality of particles, the plurality of particles having a mean diameter D50; a plurality of carbon fibers having a mean length L50; wherein L50 is greater than D50.
摘要:
A method of analytically determining an optimal laser power for configuring a laser in a selective laser sintering process, comprising: choosing a batch of powder material for building a plurality of test rods (202a-202e); selecting a range of laser power for building the plurality of test rods (202a-202e); determining a plurality of power increments within the selected range to define a plurality of different laser power settings; programming a selective laser sintering machine (10) to build at least one test rod of said plurality of test rods (202a-202e) at each laser power setting; constructing the plurality of test rods (202a-202e) from the batch of powder material (36) based on said programming; inspecting each test rod for voids in a surface of the test rod; and identifying the laser power setting used to construct a respective test rod without formation of voids in the surface as an optimal laser power for configuring the selective laser sintering machine (10) when conducting a laser sintering process using the chosen batch of powder material (36).
摘要:
Tracking or tracing of both the global and local movements of unidirectional discontinuous fiber composite (UD-DFC ) chips during compression molding of UD-DFC molding compound. The tracking capability is provided by including tracer chips in the UD-DFC molding compound. The tracer chips include a resin matrix and at least one unidirectional carbon tow which is made up of a plurality of carbon filaments. The tracer chip further includes a unidirectional tracer yarn which is made up of a plurality of unidirectional filaments that are detectable by x-ray or other radiation-based scanning technique.
摘要:
Uncured epoxy resin for use in making prepreg for aerospace applications. The resin includes an epoxy resin component comprising difunctional epoxy resin, trifunctional epoxy resin and/or tetrafunctional epoxy resin and a sufficient amount of [3-(4-aminobenzoyl) oxyphenyl] 4-aminobenzoate (3-ABOAB, as a curing agent, such that the uncured resin can be stored at room temperature of at least 6 weeks and wherein the uncured resin can be fully cured in no more than 2 hours at a temperature of between 175°C and 185°C.
摘要:
Pre-impregnated composite material (prepreg) is provided that can be cured/molded to form composite parts having high damage tolerance and interlaminar fracture toughness. The matrix resin includes a thermoplastic particle component that includes a mixture of polyamide 12 particles and polyamide 11 particles.