This work draws some early baselines on the in-plane/out-of-plane properties balance in a 5HS woven carbon fabric/epoxy composite reinforced by tufting and resin injected by resin transfer moulding technique. Details of ...

The paper details the manufacturing processes involved in the preparation of through-the-thickness reinforced composites via the ‘dry preform–tufting–liquid resin injection’ route. Samples for mechanical testing were ...

Dynamic loadings induced on a tufting needle during the tufting of dry carbon fibre preform via a commercial robot-controlled tufting head were investigated in situ and in real-time using optical fibre Bragg grating (FBG) ...