Dahimar Mercedes Sanchez
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of this research are: - to complete theoretical Characterization of the physics of curing in Cured-In-Place-Pipes - to do Finite Element Simulation of curing in curing in Cured-In-Place-Pipes - to development of simplified methods for curing - to ptimize curing process for high performance pipes Related Research This research relates to ongoing research at the Trenchless Technology Center on pipe rehabilitation. The research is broad in impact in the sense it also applies to general composite materials. Some attempts have been made in the past for composite materials used in automotive and aerospace industry (White et al. 1995, Ahmad et al. 1997) but are not directly related to CIPP because it is an in-situ process fully dependent on field conditions where variability is inherent. Methodology 1-Contact CIPP companies and collect manufacturing data from them 2-Develop a physics description of the processes going on in CIPP manufacturing 3-Identify/Develop partial differential governing these equations 4-Identify numerical ranges of process and performance variables from industry 5-Build FEA heat transfer models on the basis of the Physics identified earlier 6-Perform simulations 7-Extract simple models 8-Suggest an optimization framework. |