The proposed syllabus covers various topics related to composite materials and technology, including introductions to composite materials and their constituents, mechanical testing and characterization, mechanics of composite materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, machining, differences from metals, handling and assembly, design guidelines, quality assurance, safety, and a visit. The workshop aims to provide an overview of composite materials and technology from constituents and properties to manufacturing, testing, design, and safety.
The proposed syllabus covers various topics related to composite materials and technology, including introductions to composite materials and their constituents, mechanical testing and characterization, mechanics of composite materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, machining, differences from metals, handling and assembly, design guidelines, quality assurance, safety, and a visit. The workshop aims to provide an overview of composite materials and technology from constituents and properties to manufacturing, testing, design, and safety.
The proposed syllabus covers various topics related to composite materials and technology, including introductions to composite materials and their constituents, mechanical testing and characterization, mechanics of composite materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, machining, differences from metals, handling and assembly, design guidelines, quality assurance, safety, and a visit. The workshop aims to provide an overview of composite materials and technology from constituents and properties to manufacturing, testing, design, and safety.
The proposed syllabus covers various topics related to composite materials and technology, including introductions to composite materials and their constituents, mechanical testing and characterization, mechanics of composite materials, manufacturing processes, tooling, machining, differences from metals, handling and assembly, design guidelines, quality assurance, safety, and a visit. The workshop aims to provide an overview of composite materials and technology from constituents and properties to manufacturing, testing, design, and safety.
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Proposed syllabus for work shop on composite materials and technology
1) Introduction to Composites Materials:
Advanced Composite materials and their constituents. Functions of constituents of composite materials. Types and characteristics of reinforcements and their applications. Types and characteristics of matrix materials. Brief overview of manufacturing processes. Advantages and concerns of Composite materials. Prepregs and handling of Prepregs. A.Gnanasekar, ARDC, HAL 2) Mechanical Testing and characterisation: Mechanical properties of composite materials and Generation of design data. A and B basis values. Effect of notch, environment, impact, and method of arriving at design allowable. Design philosophy: Safe life, fail safe and damage tolerance. Dr. SID, NAL 3) Introduction to Mechanics of Composite Materials: Laminated plate theory. Effect on lay up un-symmetry and un balance on laminate properties. Hygrothermal effects. In-Plane and Flexural properties of laminates. Carpet plots preliminary design approach. 4) Manufacturing of composite components: Manufacturing processes for composite components, RTM, VRTM, filament winding and autoclave processing. Prepreg hand-layup process .Details of autoclave processing of prepregs and vacuum bagging.. Effect of cure cycle parameters on quality of composite components. Muko / Mahesh CMD 5) Composite layup tooling: Contemporary Tooling materials. Layup tool design consideration; effect of CTE difference between tool materials and composite material. Tool- part interaction. Design for thermal expansion relief for long slender parts. Spring in phenomena and warpage. Effect of tool surface area, Heat capacity on cure cycle when multiple components are loaded in single autoclave charge. Shetty CMD 6) Machining of Composite Components: Drilling, routing, milling, grinding etc. The recommended machining parameters machining induced defects and their effects on performance. Other non conventional marching of composite materials CMD 7) Metals versus Composites: How the composite materials differ from conventional metallic materials. Imact of these differences in Storage &Handling, Design, Manufacturing and Qa of composite components. A.Gnanasekar 8) Handling assembly in service Care:
Handling of cured composite components. Effect of material, design and manufacturing,
variations in assembly. Iin-service care and service induced defects and preventions. Subba Reddy ADA 9) Composite design Guidelines: General design guidelines to mitigate the general concerns of composite materials A.Gnanasekar 10) QA: Inspection and quality assurance of composite materials at various stages of manufacturing composites. Common defects in Composite materials and NDT techniques to detect them. Over view of Effect of defects on performance and integrity of composite components. Brief on ultrasound A scan C scan, X ray etc MR Bhat, IISc 11) Safety in Composite manufacturing industry: General safety Precautions, sources of information. Toxicity of various fibres matrix and their tolerable exposure limits. Engineering solutions and precautions to common process related to composite manufacturing. Personal protection equipments., their selection and effectiveness. Wastes disposal and Environmental considerations. Rajashree Pillai, ARDC
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