The paper presents recent developments in the area of impedance cure and flow
monitoring of thermosetting matrix/continuous reinforcement composites.
Impedance cure monitoring is a variation of dielectric cure monitoring which
follows the progress of the curing reaction and the accompanying structural
phenomena by means of the impedance spectrum response of the curing material.
Currently, a good correlation between specific features of the imaginary
impedance spectrum and the progress of the reaction has been found to hold under
isothermal conditions. In this paper the correlation between the impedance and
the progress of the reaction is extended to dynamic cure conditions. Impedance
flow monitoring of the filling stage of liquid moulding of glass composites,
based on lineal sensors, has been developed and reported recently. Here, this
technique is extended to the case of conductive reinforcements with the
development of a new sensing system. The system performance is tested against
visual observation of the flow front position during resin transfer moulding
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