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    Forming low-cost, high quality carbon tows for automotive application.

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    Sharif, Tahir
    Potluri, P
    Choudhry, Rizwan Saeed cc
    Dodworth, A
    Affiliation
    University of Derby
    The University of Manchester
    Bright Lite Structures (BLS), UK
    Issue Date
    2018-09-21
    
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    Carbon fiber reinforced composites are widely used in many industries due to their high performance. Its application in the aerospace industry has increased significantly, however, in mass produced automobile sector it is still limited. The current production of carbon fiber tow is slow and capital intensive. Thus, carbon manufactures produce higher tow counts to increase production rate to reduce its cost. In order to offset the higher cost of carbon fiber composite, an innovative and unique approach has been developed. The higher tow count carbon spools are split into smaller tow counts. Due to the delicate nature of carbon fiber, it is important to control the filamentation during that process. Different splitting process line strategies have been developed in this research work for understanding the process limitations and challenges involved. The process was made feasible for production by developing a fully automated process line with a laser feedback system. The system splits a 12K spool into two 6K tows. The quality of the 6K split tows has been determined statistically by recording real time data from the laser during the splitting process. It was demonstrated that the proposed process effectively controls filamentation and produces consistent tow quality.
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    Sharif, T. et al. (2018) ‘Forming low-cost, high quality carbon tows for automotive application’, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 406 012021. doi: 10.1088/1757-899X/406/1/012021
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    IOP Publishing
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    IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/623106
    DOI
    10.1088/1757-899X/406/1/012021
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    http://stacks.iop.org/1757-899X/406/i=1/a=012021?key=crossref.0d2b2fd79f22b51ee3cd44adc8bb91c4
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    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1757-899X
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1088/1757-899X/406/1/012021
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