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CONTENTS

1) History 2) Introduction 3) Literature Review 3.1 Vacuum process molding.. 3.2 Resin transfer molding modeling.. 3.3 Vacuum assisted resin transfer molding... 3.4 Resin flow.. 4) Composites materials 4.1 Defination 4.2 Needs of composite 4.3 Application of composites.. 4.4 Classification of composites.. 5) 6) Manufacturing of composites Detail study of VARTM process 6.1 Flow model 6.2 Compaction Model Formulation.. 6.3 Resin Model . 6.4 Control Volume Technique

6.5 Problems on VARTM.. 6.6 VARTM Equipments.. 6.7 processing parameters..

7) Testing ASTM standards