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The following information was taken from the following handbook:
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The purpose of this is to present further information on the importance of composites testing and the various ways we can go about it., it is also a chance for me to evaluate this source to see if it is worth it to look through for further information.
Keep in mind that the testing of composites is much different than the testing of isotropic materials and therefore we must enhance our knowledge on this subject matter so we can do things much, much more efficiently in the future.
Also, note that there is much more information in the handbook on testing that I don’t believe is important for our needs but may be of some use to anybody that is interested.
Keep in mind that the following headings directly emulate where I got my information from within the handbook.
Overview of Testing
Building-Block Approach
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The above is done by using two different types of measuring probes.
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Constituent Materials Testing
Chemical Tests
We don’t currently do any of these tests but it could be worth looking into. These are more scientific tests that we could possibly do in the future that could help get the information presented in the table below. I know for a fact that most of these tests can be done on campus and could maybe provide us with valuable information?
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Although these are interesting, I don’t exactly know if they would give us anything useful? They may but they may be too advanced and not worth it for our means. Anyways, just a thought.
Formulations
I don’t exactly know the point of this section but, they do note a couple tests that can be used on “cured impregnated systems” to get some small properties, they are listed below:
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The handbook doesn’t quite explain how to do these tests but, I bet we’d be able to figure that out. I think the completeness of cure could be useful by means of a differential scanning calorimetry for glass transition test (I think that’s what it would be called). Then again, we may be confident enough in our curing to not worry about this.
Lamina and Laminate Mechanical Testing
The following is a table of many testing standards that we could maybe use?
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The rest of this section only explains these test standards and how they do them, I believe that the title of the standard gives plenty of information and they don’t need to be summarized in this page. We can just take a look at these standards and pick and choose what we want, Although, I will insert pictures of the various testing fixtures used in some of these standards and I will be labelling them accordingly.
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Element and Subcomponent Testing
As with the section prior, they list out many standard documents that can be used for tests on elements and subcomponents.
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Small Conclusion
After reading this handbook, although it had some valuable information, a lot of it was extremely high level and very complicated to understand, it seems like this source may not be suited for us since we aren’t a big corporation that can afford all the specified equipment for composites manufacturing.