Disclosure of Invention
The method aims to solve the problem that the quality requirements of the inner and outer molded surfaces of the composite material member cannot be met simultaneously due to poor pressurizing effect in the existing forming method. The invention provides a molding method of a special-shaped tubular composite part, which utilizes a female die to ensure the quality of an outer molded surface, forms a rigid overlaying die by matching a rubber air bag and a soluble core die in the manufacturing process, ensures the quality of the inner molded surface by removing the soluble core die in the inner cavity of the rubber air bag and expanding and pressurizing the rubber air bag at high temperature and high pressure, and utilizes the contraction behavior of the rubber air bag under negative pressure to easily realize the demolding process so as to achieve the purpose of simultaneously having higher quality of the inner molded surface and the outer molded surface, and the specific technical scheme comprises the following steps:
step 1, manufacturing a rubber air bag and a paving and stacking mold:
(1) laying a layer of sheet unvulcanized rubber on the surface of an inner cavity of a rubber air bag forming die, wherein the lap joint width of a splicing part is 12.7-25.4 mm, sequentially laying a non-porous isolating film, an air felt and a vacuum bag in the inner cavity of the rubber air bag forming die, turning outwards the exposed parts of the two ends of the non-porous isolating film, the air felt and the vacuum bag, integrally coating the non-porous isolating film, the air felt and the vacuum bag together with the rubber air bag forming die, vulcanizing and forming the sheet unvulcanized rubber, and demoulding to obtain the rubber air bag;
(2) sealing one side of the formed tubular hollow rubber air bag, pouring the uniformly mixed soluble core mold material subjected to negative pressure defoaming into the inner cavity of the rubber air bag to ensure that the soluble core mold material is tightly filled, preparing a soluble core mold after the soluble core mold material is hardened, and forming a stacking mold together with the rubber air bag;
step 2, blank laying, transferring and rubber air bag reducing:
(1) laying a layer of non-porous isolating membrane on the surface of a laying die, wherein the splicing gap at the splicing position is less than 12.7mm, bonding and fixing by using a pressure sensitive adhesive tape, laying prepreg according to the laying design of the special-shaped tubular composite part, laying 3 layers of prepreg every time, carrying out vacuum compaction for not less than 30min, removing air mixed between layers in the laying process of the prepreg, and preparing a tubular composite part blank after laying the prepreg;
(2) integrally transferring the tubular composite part blank together with the laying die into a tubular part forming die, destabilizing a soluble core die by adopting a core removing method, removing the soluble core die in the inner cavity of the rubber air bag, and reducing the rubber air bag to form a tubular composite part blank + rubber air bag system;
step 3, curing and demolding:
sequentially plugging the air permeable felt and the vacuum bag into an inner cavity of the rubber air bag, the surface of which is coated with the tubular composite part blank, turning the exposed parts at two sides outwards, and integrally coating the exposed parts together with a tubular part forming die to form a 'female die + tubular composite part blank + rubber air bag + nonporous isolating film + air permeable felt + vacuum bag' packaging system, sealing one end of the rubber air bag after curing and removing packaging, and vacuumizing the other end of the rubber air bag, so that the demolding process of the tubular composite part can be realized through the shrinkage deformation of the rubber air bag;
the above molding method for the special-shaped tubular composite material part is characterized in that:
in the step 1(1), the rubber air bag forming die is a metal female die, the roughness is 1.6-3.2, and the size of the molded surface is reduced according to the size of an inner cavity of the tubular part, the thermal expansion coefficient of a forming die material and rubber vulcanization temperature parameters;
in the step 1(1), the temperature for vulcanizing and molding the flaky unvulcanized rubber is 176 +/-5 ℃, and the pressure is 0.4-0.7 MPa;
in the step 1(1), the long-term service temperature of the rubber air bag is higher than the curing temperature of the special-shaped tubular composite material part;
in the step 1(1), the size of the isolation film is required to be enough to completely isolate the sheet-shaped unvulcanized rubber from the air permeable felt and the vacuum bag;
in the step 1(1), the size of the air-permeable felt needs to meet the requirement that the rubber air bag forming die can be completely coated, and the edge of the tool is locally thickened;
in the step 1(1), the vacuum bag is spliced into a cylinder by the sealing rubber strips, the caliber of the vacuum bag is 20% larger than the size of the inner cavity of the rubber air bag forming die, and the size of the vacuum bag is required to be capable of completely coating the rubber air bag forming die;
in the step 1(1), the outline size of the rubber air bag is larger than that of the tubular composite material part, the thickness is larger than or equal to 1.59mm, and in an area with thickness variation or strict requirement on an R angle, a tool prepreg is locally added to increase the rigidity;
in the step 1(2), the soluble core mold material comprises a filler and a setting agent, the filler is one or more of quartz sand, white carbon black, hollow glass beads and chopped fibers, and the setting agent is one of water-soluble salt, starch glue, gypsum and paraffin;
in the step 2(1), the thickness of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape is 0.064 mm;
in the step 2(2), the tubular part forming die is a metal female die, the roughness is 1.6-3.2, and the size of the molded surface is reduced according to the external dimension of the tubular part, the thermal expansion coefficient of the forming die and the curing temperature parameter of the part;
in the step 2(2), the core removing method selects one or more media of alkali liquor, water, high-pressure water and steam to wash the soluble core mold material;
in the step 3, the size of the ventilated felt needs to meet the requirement that the tubular part forming die can be completely coated, and the edge of the tool is locally thickened;
in step 3, the size of the vacuum bag is required to be enough to completely cover the tubular part forming die.
Compared with the prior art, the forming method of the special-shaped tubular composite part has the beneficial effects that:
the rubber air bag manufactured by the invention has the advantages of good quality of the outer molded surface, high reuse rate, uniform and obvious pressurization effect and the like, and can solve the problems of poor quality of the inner molded surface, low stability of part batch production and the like of the traditional special-shaped tubular composite material molding method.
The invention uses the core mould material and the rubber air bag to make the paving mould, the material and the manufacturing cost are far lower than the wooden or metal male mould used in the prior art.
By manufacturing the laying die and performing core stripping treatment on the soluble core die, the problems that blanks are not easy to lay, female dies are not easy to close and the like in the traditional special-shaped tubular composite material forming method are solved, the laying difficulty is reduced, the laying period is shortened, and the die closing risk is avoided.
The invention realizes the demolding process of the special-shaped tubular composite material part by utilizing the shrinkage deformation of the rubber air bag in the vacuum environment, has simple process and is suitable for the manufacturing process of most tubular composite material parts.
Detailed Description
The disclosure of the present technology, including the structural form and the forming method of the rubber air bag, the structural form of the lay-up die, the manufacturing method, and the demolding method of the special-shaped tubular composite material part, should be regarded as the protection scope of the present invention.
For further illustration and not limitation of the above-described implementation of the present invention, a typical method for forming an S-shaped tubular composite part with a closed angle structure is taken as an example and the present invention is further described with reference to fig. 1-3, wherein the following details are as follows:
a forming method of a special-shaped tubular composite part comprises the following steps:
(1) a sheet-like unvulcanized rubber 2(AIRPAD) is laid on the surface of a rubber bladder forming mold 1 (made of aluminum, 2A12T4) with a lap width of
Adding a layer of tooling prepreg (TOOLMASTER PR) to the locally reinforced regionEPREG), and then sequentially laying a layer of non-porous isolating membrane 3(WL5200), air-permeable felt 4(AIRWEAVE N10) and vacuum bag 5(IPPLON DPT1000) in the inner cavity of the rubber air bag forming die 1, as shown in figure 1;
turning over the imperforate
isolating membrane 3, the air felt 4 and the
vacuum bag 5 at the end part, integrally coating the isolating membrane, the air felt and the vacuum bag together with the rubber air bag forming die 1, completing the vulcanization forming of the sheet
unvulcanized rubber 2 under the conditions of 176 ℃ and 0.5MPa to form the rubber air bag, wherein the thickness of the rubber air bag is
(2) Sealing one side of the rubber air bag 6, uniformly mixing a setting agent (modified corn starch glue) and fillers (quartz sand and hollow glass beads) and defoaming the mixture under negative pressure to form a soluble core mold blank, pouring the soluble core mold blank into the inner cavity of the rubber air bag 6 to ensure that the soluble core mold blank is tightly filled, and then hardening the soluble core mold blank for 4.5 hours under the action of normal temperature and normal pressure to prepare a soluble core mold 7 which forms a laying mold together with the rubber air bag 6;
a layer of non-porous isolating membrane 3(WL5200) is paved on the surface of the paving and laminating mould, and the splicing gap at the splicing position is
Bonding and fixing the prepreg with a pressure sensitive adhesive tape (FLASHBREAKER 1), and then paving the prepreg 8 according to the laying design of the composite material part, as shown in FIG. 2; ensuring vacuum compaction of three layers of prepreg per lay-up 8
After the prepreg 8 is laid, a tubular composite part blank 10 is manufactured;
(3) the tubular composite part blank 10 and the paving die are integrally transferred into a tubular part forming die 9 (made of aluminum, 2A12T4), water (25-65 ℃) is adopted as a medium to perform decoring treatment on a soluble core die 7 in the rubber airbag 6, so that the soluble core die material is unstable, the soluble core die 7 in the inner cavity of the rubber airbag 6 is removed, and the rubber airbag 6 is reduced;
(4) sequentially plugging a layer of breathable felt 4(AIRWEAVE N10) and a vacuum bag 5(IPPLON DPT1000) into the inner cavity of the rubber air bag 6, turning the end part outwards and integrally coating the end part with a tubular part forming die 9 to form a packaging system of the tubular part forming die 9+ a tubular composite part blank 10+ a non-porous isolating film 3+ the rubber air bag 6+ the breathable felt 4+ the vacuum bag 5, as shown in FIG. 3; and after curing, dismantling and packaging, sealing one end of the rubber air bag 6, and vacuumizing the other end of the rubber air bag 6 to realize the demolding process of the tubular composite material part through the shrinkage deformation of the rubber air bag 6.