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Manufacturing And Performance Evaluation Of Out-Of-Autoclave Sandwich Composites, Sriram Nagarajan
Manufacturing And Performance Evaluation Of Out-Of-Autoclave Sandwich Composites, Sriram Nagarajan
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"Composite sandwich structures are being increasingly employed in applications which require high strength, high in-plane and flexural stiffness coupled with a reduction in weight. Sandwich composites used in the aerospace industry are typically manufactured using high pressure autoclave processing which is expensive and time consuming. A viable low cost alternative is the Out-of-autoclave (OOA) process. One of the most dominant failure modes in sandwich composites is the debonding that occurs at the facesheet skin to core interphase leading to severe degradation of structural properties of the sandwich. A well formed adhesive bond at the skin to core interphase and improved …