The first European benchmark exercise on squeeze flow testing of high-performance carbon fibre sheet moulding compounds
Connie Qian, Miro Duhovic, Dominic Schommer, Florian Gortner, Andreas Gebhard, Thomas Neumeyer, Marcel Olma, Louis Schreyer, Luise Kärger, Martin Hohberg, Hao Yuan, Anna Julia Imbsweiler, Leah Senn Ramirez, Sepehr Simaafrookhteh, Jan Ivens, Stepan V. Lomov, Gerben Bieleman, Wouter Grouve, Francois Mahé, Christophe Binetruy, Andreas Kapshammer, Zoltan Major, Dmitry S. Ivanov, Jonathan P.-H. Belnoue, Anatoly Koptelov, Jakub Jakimow, Yvonne Aitomaki, Dimitra Ramantani
Abstract. High-performance C-SMCs typically consist of long carbon fibre reinforcement with high fibre content and can be compression moulded at elevated temperatures and pressures to form parts with complex geometries. Squeeze flow testing has been increasingly adopted for experimentally characterising the flow behaviour of C-SMCs, but the reliability and repeatability of the testing results are low due to the lack of standardised methods. This paper presents a benchmarking exercise on C-SMC squeeze flow testing, jointly delivered by 14 European research institutes, with the objective of quantifying the variabilities in the testing results and identifying their sources.
Keywords
C-SMC, Squeeze Flow Testing, Compression Moulding, Benchmark Exercise
Published online 5/7/2025, 10 pages
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Citation: Connie Qian, Miro Duhovic, Dominic Schommer, Florian Gortner, Andreas Gebhard, Thomas Neumeyer, Marcel Olma, Louis Schreyer, Luise Kärger, Martin Hohberg, Hao Yuan, Anna Julia Imbsweiler, Leah Senn Ramirez, Sepehr Simaafrookhteh, Jan Ivens, Stepan V. Lomov, Gerben Bieleman, Wouter Grouve, Francois Mahé, Christophe Binetruy, Andreas Kapshammer, Zoltan Major, Dmitry S. Ivanov, Jonathan P.-H. Belnoue, Anatoly Koptelov, Jakub Jakimow, Yvonne Aitomaki, Dimitra Ramantani, The first European benchmark exercise on squeeze flow testing of high-performance carbon fibre sheet moulding compounds, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 54, pp 676-685, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903599-73
The article was published as article 73 of the book Material Forming
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