impregnation method (woven fiber wetted thoroughly).

The wetted woven fabric were

then be wrapped with split plied went through the laminating machine by controlling
the speed conveyor, pressure and temperature. During prepreg laminating process,
in order to control the dispersion ratio of resin to woven fabric of prepreg, the
pressure apply could the squeeze resin out. It is vital to control the resin amount to
woven fabric to avoid any massive resin access to flow out through the machine
conveyor and may affect the the laminating system. The conveyor speed and
pressure were constantly fixed throughout the prepreg fabrication, with 0.33
meter/min and 5 N/m2 respectively. 3 sets of temperature were setting differently in
order to customized the different degree of Cure of prepreg. 60°C, 75°C, and 90°C of
temperature setting were selected for the experiments. The produced prepregs were
then be stored in the freezer of before the final layup and curing process.

Composite Fabrication & Curing

To form final composite structure, the prepreg were layup by stacking 6 plies in
vacuum bag. The mass of each ply was recorded to identify the difference of mass
before and after manufacturing process is done. Hot bonder curing process was
applied to the sample with the specific curing recipe. The curing recipe is revealed in
Figure 2.

ISLAM 2017(DESIGN)
In the conventional single layer prepreg fabrication system, a layer of fiber is
impregnated by coating (manual) or dipping (automatic) by the resin (hot melt
method) or resin solution (solution impregnation method). The resin used in the
conventional method is either precured before impregnation or cured through a
heating tower to obtain β-stage to obtain desired physical properties of the prepreg.
The stacking of the prepreg in different orientation ad draping against the mold is
performed together (window-B in Fig. 1) in the molding process for making the
composite structure from the prepreg. In the current method, fiber layup has been
included in prepreg stage. The word “customized” (Fig. 1) indicates the prepreg
customer requirement based on their composite applications. Following options may
be further tuned while making the MLP
1. Fiber orientation in certain direction for each layer
2. Number of layers