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Pre-impregnated Textile Semi-finished Products (Prepregs)

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Textile Materials for Lightweight Constructions

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Pre-impregnated semi-finished textile products (prepregs), are an important base material for the manufacture of thermoset and thermoplastic composite materials. They consist of a usually flat and planar textile reinforcement structure and are combined with thermoset or thermoplastic matrices required for the production of the final component. Both short fibers or continuous filaments and textile fabrics, such as woven fabrics or multiaxial warp-knitted fabrics, can be used as base material. The basic principle of using this special textile semi-finished product is to separate the step of impregnating the reinforcement structure with the matrix during composite material production from the final step of producing the component form.

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    Olaf Diestel

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Diestel, O., Hausding, J. (2016). Pre-impregnated Textile Semi-finished Products (Prepregs). In: Cherif, C. (eds) Textile Materials for Lightweight Constructions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46341-3_11

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