A REVIEW OF THE CURING MODELS OF EPOXY-BASED COMPOSITES

Recently,the curing process,which proved to have a heavy influence on the qualit of epoxy-based composites,has been studied by using a lot of methods.One of them,they model method is a newlydeveloped one.The paper summarized the curing models used at present which involed the thermo-chemical model,the flow model,the void model and the sterss model.There are a lot of factors to influence the curing process of the composites.A ccording to G.S.Springei/s and H.C.Halpin's works,however,the influence of each factor could be.