Design and Manufacturing of a Small-Scale filament Winding Machine to Produce Composite Parts

A filament winding machine is a manufacturing device that is used to create hollow parts out of resin-impregnated fibers that are spun onto a mandrel. The applications of the manufacturing process span in industries that vary from sporting goods equipment to aerospace structures that require a part with high strength to weight ratio. In this paper, a small-scale automated filament winding machine was designed and fabricated. In a filament winding process, the fiber is impregnated with a resin and wrapped on a cylindrical shape mandrel. The design created is a two-axis filament winding machine with one axis consisting of rotational motion and the second axis being translational motion. Each axis is driven by a stepper motor controlled by a CNC program which will regulate angular speed and translational speed. The carriage will translate parallel to the rotating mandrel it will carry the fiber creels along with the tensioning rods, resin bath, wiper blades and payoff. The design will be able to create a part with a 12 [in] diameter and 24 [in] length along with a minimum diameter of 0.5 [in] and 1 [in] length. The adjustable winding angles are from 10 to 90 in increments of 5. Mandrel speed can be varied, or kept constant these settings will also be applied to the carriage. The design is built for experimental analysis of the mandrel speed, carriage speed and winding angles. Testing of different variations of the 3 factors will be compared to the part quality and the strength that it exhibits. This machine can use for training and educating the students as a part from their study of fabrication of long fiber composite materials.

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