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An Analysis of Lateral-Spreading Mechanism of Fiber Bundle for a Two-Stage Pneumatic Platform

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It is widely understood that fiber-reinforced composite structures made with 'thinner plies' can exhibit better mechanical properties. To avoid the friction to fibers in the traditional mechanical method, a new two-stage pneumatic fiber spreading system was established. To better understand the lateral-spreading mechanism of the system and optimize the relevant control parameters, CFD models of hot-air jet and turbine spreader are built with the help of multi-block technology and Euler multiphase flow method. By characterizing the distribution of air velocities in the flow fields, the influences of the boundary conditions were evaluated and optimized. The simulation results match well with the experiments, and show the feasibility and effectiveness of the multi-block technology and Euler multiphase flow method. Under the guidance of the optimization results, carbon fiber bundles have been evenly and continuously spread from 8 to 48 mm.

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Financial support from Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City (CN) (Grant No: 18JCYBJC89000).

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, 300387, China

    Xuejuan Niu, Jinliang Chen & Zhun Zhang

  2. Advanced Mechatronics Equipment Technology Tianjin Area Major Laboratory, Tianjin, 300387, China

    Jinliang Chen & Zhun Zhang

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Niu, X., Chen, J. & Zhang, Z. An Analysis of Lateral-Spreading Mechanism of Fiber Bundle for a Two-Stage Pneumatic Platform. Fibers Polym 24, 2891–2901 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-023-00239-z

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