This paper presents SimBuilder, a simulation system incorporating environmental and quality concerns into a traditional manufacturing simulation environment. These simulations can be used to generate a complete material balance around a particular manufacturing process and can be made available to design engineers to aid in life cycle design assessments. An example developed for the filament-wi...

A study has been conducted on amine-cured epoxy resins and the effects on the ultimate burst strength of internally loaded glass-reinforced filament-wound vessels when these rosins were used as the plastic matrices. The tensile properties of the niatrLx were changed by systematically altering the molecular structure of the amine-cured epoxy resin. It was found that resintensile properties had a...

Wet filament winding technology has been extensively used for the manufacture of rotationally symmetric parts made fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP). As design and modeling FRP-parts require numerous assumptions, deviations between calculated achieved mechanical properties are expected. One aspect that contributes to this discrepancy is assumption a homogeneous rectangular cross-section fiber-ban...