| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
TMS Specialty Congress 2025
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| Symposium
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8th World Congress on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME 2025)
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| Presentation Title |
Curing Process Optimization of Polymer Composite Structures Through Spatiotemporal Temperature Control |
| Author(s) |
Soban Babu Beemaraj, Arshdeep Singh, Yagnik Kalariya, Amit Salvi |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Soban Babu Beemaraj |
| Abstract Scope |
Composite materials offer high specific stiffness and strength; hence, they are used in high-performance applications. The manufacturing of composite parts/structures involves the application of heat to initiate curing, which governs their mechanical properties. The residual stresses, due to exothermic cure effects, developed during the manufacturing process led to premature failure. In large composite structures like wind turbine blades, spatial and temporal optimization of the temperature profile is essential to reduce temperature and cure gradients and improve the mechanical behavior. This work introduces spatiotemporal optimization of the curing process where temperature profile is optimized with respect to time and location by combining surrogate-assisted multiscale cure analysis with a Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II). The method utilizes thermo-chemical-mechanical finite element analysis to model mechanical property evolution, while surrogate model reduces computational time. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is shown for a tapered laminated composite structure. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Undecided |