Abstract
This chapter discusses the use of polymer composites for blast protection applications. The background of polymer composites is introduced together with the manufacturing processes. Of the many possible technologies available to fabricate blast resistance polymer composites, the liquid composites molding (LCM) processes are discussed in the greatest detail. The chapter then reviews the modeling of LCM in terms of the flow physics of resin flow in porous media, the corresponding heat and mass transfer issues, and modeling the resin cure. Since the permeability of fiber preforms is a very important parameter needed for simulating mold-filling in LCM, the permeability measurement is reviewed in detail as well.
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