Inferring material properties from FRP processes via sim-to-real learning

Publikationen: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftArtikelForschung(peer-reviewed)

Autoren

  • Simon Stieber
  • Niklas Schröter
  • Alexander Schiendorfer
  • Wolfgang Reif

Externe Organisationseinheiten

  • Universität Augsburg
  • Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt

Abstract

Fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) provide favorable properties such as weight-specific strength and stiffness that are central for certain industries, such as aerospace or automotive manufacturing. Liquid composite molding (LCM) is a family of often employed, inexpensive, out-of-autoclave manufacturing techniques. Among them, resin transfer molding (RTM), offers a high degree of automation. Herein, textile preforms are saturated by a fluid polymer matrix in a closed mold.Both impregnation quality and level of fiber volume content are of crucial importance for the final part quality. We propose to simultaneously learn three major textile properties (fiber volume content and permeability in X and Y direction) presented as a three-dimensional map based on a sequence of camera images acquired in flow experiments and compare CNNs, ConvLSTMs, and Transformers. Moreover, we show how simulation-to-real transfer learning can improve a digital twin in FRP manufacturing, compared to simulation-only models and models based on sparse real data. The overall best metrics are: IOU 0.5031 and Accuracy 95.929 %, obtained by pretrained transformer models.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)1517–1533
Seitenumfang17
FachzeitschriftInternational Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
Jahrgang128.2023
AusgabenummerSeptember
DOIs
StatusVeröffentlicht - 27 Juli 2023