Vacuum Bagging - Problem with surface finish


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Ashutosh
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Hi I am doing Vacuum Bagging and in the final part there are gaps/voids where the warp and wept intersect. Here is an image of it. Can anyone help please?
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Could be caused by numerous things. What method and material are you using? When you vacuum bag how good is the vacuum and is there enough bag so you don't get any bridging or wrinkling.
The photo looks like not enough consolidation so probably a vac leak?
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We use 200 gsm 3k plain weave Carbon Fiber and an epoxy resin system. The Vacuum Bagging materials are peel ply, breather/bleeder, and vacuum bag is standard 75 micron polyester.

We wet the fabric layer by layer, with an initial layer of resin on the mould. And then the standard vacuum bagging procedure of fabric + peel ply + breather/bleeder + Vac bag. The ratio of fibre to resin for wet layup is almost 40:60 (fibre to resin) to make sure that the fiber is soaked properly in the resin pool and thinking the excess will be soaked up by the bleeder/breather (which is true as our fibre weight is 55:45 of total after curing).

The vacuum bagging is done in our university's composite lab. we ensure the vacuum is maintained while we leave our parts there overnight for curing. But returning next day the vacuum is not maintained, and we cant leave the vacuum pump on overnight as per lab regulations. So the parts are not entirely cured in vacuum.

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