Processing of Thermoplastic Matrix Composites
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Begun in 1973, the Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation (QNDE) is the premier international NDE meeting designed to provide an interface between research and early engineering through the presentation of current ideas and results focused on facilitating a rapid transfer to engineering development.
This site provides free, public access to papers presented at the annual QNDE conference between 1983 and 1999, and abstracts for papers presented at the conference since 2001.
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In recent years considerable attention has been focused on the use of tough, high-temperature, sol vent-resistant thermoplastic polymers as matrix materials for fiber-reinforced composites. Thermoplastic resin systems have shown potential for reducing manufacturing costs and improving the damage tolerance of composite structures. In order to produce high-quality composite laminates from continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic prepregs the processing temperature and pressure must be selected so that intimate contact (coalescence) at the ply interfaces is achieved resulting in the formation of strong interfacial bonds (consolidation).