UROP Project

Speeding up pultrusion

Contact

Name

Daniel Holder

Program Director UROP

Telephone

workPhone
+49 241 80-90695

E-Mail

Key Info

Basic Information

Project Offer-Number:
999
Category:
UROP International
Field:
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty:
4
Organisation unit:
Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and the Skilled Crafts at RWTH Aachen University
Language Skills:
English, German (not necessary)

MoveOn

Pultrusion is an established production process for fiber reinforced plastic profiles. These profiles exhibit beneficial properties for a variety of applications, such as wind energy, infrastructure and many more. In order to produce profiles economically, the pultrusion speeds need to be increased. Higher production speeds require a much better process control. Due to the high complexity of the ongoing curing reaction a sufficient process data acquisition is essential for further process improvements.

Task

Your task could include: Die optimization, Development of a new data acquisition setup, Data driven process analysis, Process visualization

Requirements

First experiences in plastic and composite processing beneficial; Experience in LabView beneficial, but not necessary