Abstract
Fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites has poorer matrix resin impregnation to fiber reinforcement, because of extreme high viscosity of molten thermoplastics. Intermediate materials using Micro-Braiding technique have been developed to overcome these difficulties. In this study, composite textiles plates were fabricated under various fabrication conditions, and their impregnation were investigated experimentally and predicted by theoretical formulae. As a result, impregnation increased with molding pressure and time, and impregnation of single-ply textiles is improved compared with that of multi-ply textiles because they have more collapsed fiber bundles, hence closer impregnation distance. On another front, the analytical predictions were in disagreement with the experimental results.
