Flow Behaviour of Carbon Fibre Sheet Moulding Compound

The growing popularity of SMC compression moulding in the automotive industry has led to great interests process simulation model development. Existing models are commonly adapted from originally developed for short fibre composites and lacking experimental validation data. A novel material specifically flow is proposed this paper, where characterisation performed using squeeze testing method. validated through accuracy assessed by comparing predicted forces against data collected testing. new demonstrated significant improvement comparison existing commercial term force prediction, but compressive diverted away values towards end test. cavity pressure distribution also been investigated compared observations reported literature good correlation between have achieved.