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- Title
Warmforming Flow Pressing Characteristics of Continuous Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites.
- Authors
Gröger, Benjamin; Römisch, David; Kraus, Martin; Troschitz, Juliane; Füßel, René; Merklein, Marion; Gude, Maik
- Abstract
The paper presents research regarding a thermally supported multi-material clinching process (hotclinching) for metal and thermoplastic composite (TPC) sheets: an experimental approach to investigate the flow pressing phenomena during joining. Therefore, an experimental setup is developed to compress the TPC-specimens in out-of-plane direction with different initial TPC thicknesses and varying temperature levels. The deformed specimens are analyzed with computed tomography to investigate the resultant inner material structure at different compaction levels. The results are compared in terms of force-compaction-curves and occurring phenomena during compaction. The change of the material structure is characterized by sliding phenomena and crack initiation and growth.
- Subjects
THERMOPLASTIC composites; METALLIC composites; COMPUTED tomography; FRACTURE mechanics; COMPACTING; FIBERS
- Publication
Polymers (20734360), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 22, p5039
- ISSN
2073-4360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/polym14225039