E-beam Curing

"A web site dedicated to E-beam curing of composite materials"

A stream of electrons can be used to cure epoxy resins. One can create a stream of electrons using a linear accelerator.
The resins have to modified to include species that form H+ which creates acids which cause the epoxy resin to crosslink.
Very cool stuff!

Current Resin Manufacturers include:

- Aeroplas (Web Site coming soon)
- API
- UCB

E-beam Curing Facilities include:

- Acsion
- E-beam Services

Researchers Include:

- University of Dayton Research Lab
- Oak Ridge National Lab
- Boeing
- Lockheed Martin
- NASA

E-beam Workshops:

- Workshop on E-Beam Curing Kinetics - April 2000
- Electron Beam Curing of Composites Workshop- June 2000

Nasa Technical Reports:

- "Interpenetrating Polymer Network (IPN) Adhesives for Electron Beam Cure"
- "Fiber-Matrix Interface Studies on Electron Beam Cured Composites"
- "Nonpolluting Composites Repair and Remanufacturing for Military Applications: Formulation of Electron Beam Curable Resins with Enhanced Toughening"
- "NASA Out-of-Autoclave Process Technology Development"

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