SBIR PHASE I: Revolutionary Manufacturing Process for UV Cured Composite Structures

SBIR 第一阶段：紫外线固化复合结构的革命性制造工艺

• 批准号: 0128034
• 负责人: Alan Bilanin
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 依托单位: Continuum Dynamics, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-01-01 至 2002-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0128034&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; PHASE; Revolutionary; Manufacturing; Process

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop a novel method of UV curing composite structures that will extend UV curing techniques to any size, thickness, or shape composite and with any type of reinforcing fiber by uniformly distributing UV light throughout a composite structure. The anticipated result is a new UV curing process that can be used in many diverse applications, including aircraft, automotive, spacecraft, and marine. The process will significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing composite parts, improve the performance of these parts (by reducing residual stresses), and open new applications for composite materials using this fabrication technique. This novel UV curing technique is most attractive for large or complex composite parts.The proposed UV curing process has the potential to replace thermal curing for nearly all composite parts because it will achieve large cost and time savings while improving, or at least equaling, the thermally cured composite part performance. Additionally, the size limitations imposed by the use of an autoclave are removed because this UV curing process does not require an autoclave or any specialized tooling. Applications for this UV curing process exist in all fields, including next generation vehicle applications

该小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目将开发一种UV固化复合材料结构的新方法，该方法将通过在整个复合材料结构中均匀分布UV光，将UV固化技术扩展到任何尺寸，厚度或形状的复合材料以及任何类型的增强纤维。预期的结果是一种新的UV固化工艺，可用于许多不同的应用，包括飞机，汽车，航天器和船舶。该工艺将显著降低制造复合材料部件的成本，提高这些部件的性能（通过减少残余应力），并为使用这种制造技术的复合材料开辟新的应用。这种新型的紫外光固化技术对大型或复杂的复合材料部件最具吸引力，所提出的紫外光固化工艺有可能取代几乎所有复合材料部件的热固化，因为它将实现大量的成本和时间节省，同时改善或至少等同于热固化复合材料部件的性能。此外，由于这种紫外线固化过程不需要高压灭菌器或任何专门的工具，因此消除了使用高压灭菌器带来的尺寸限制。这种UV固化工艺的应用存在于所有领域，包括下一代车辆应用