Experimental research of saturated permeability with different fiber stacking states

  • Kangkang Jian*
  • , Zuoguang Zhang
  • , Yizhuo Gu
  • , Zhijie Sun
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

By regulating the pressure to control the volume fraction of fibers Vf, the saturated permeability along the thickness of the fiber bed was measured by the unidirectional saturated flow method. The influence of pressure on Vf was investigated. Several factors which affect the permeability were studied, including Vf, the number of layers of the fiber bed, the ply stacking sequence and the kinds of fibers. The results indicate that the degree of increase of Vf with pressure decreases when Vf exceeds a critical value. The number of layers does not affect the permeability for the unidirectional and bidirectional ply stacking while for the plain weave the permeability decreases with the number of layers. In addition, the kinds of fibers influence the permeability remarkably.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)31-36
Number of pages6
JournalFuhe Cailiao Xuebao/Acta Materiae Compositae Sinica
Volume23
Issue number1
StatePublished - Feb 2006

Keywords

  • Composites
  • Hot-press process
  • Permeability
  • Resin flow
  • Unidirectional flow

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