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Resin transfer molding (RTM)


RTM is more accurately described as a "manufacturing approach where the resin or epoxy and
filaments are kept separate while being a single procedure. All method modifications,
nonetheless, have the same fundamental aspect of retaining undesignated filaments inside a
covered instrument chamber while applying a pressure gradient to a flow of epoxy to allow the
epoxy to infiltrate further into reinforcing. Elastic or brittle parts may be present inside the
instrument (Sun et al., 2018). Mechanical restraints, a manufacturing force, or intrinsic
vacuuming are used to apply to consolidate stress to the tooling, which determines the
concentration of fiber attained concerning epoxy. This process is demonstrated in fig 4.

Figure 1: Resin transfer molding (Source: Lee et al., 2020).

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