An Enhanced Vacuum-Assisted Resin Transfer Molding Process and Its Pressure Effect on Resin Infusion Behavior and Composite Material Performance.

In this paper, an enhanced VARTM process is proposed and its pressure effect on resin infusion behavior and composite material performance is studied to reveal the control mechanism of the fiber volume fraction and void content. The molding is vacuumized during the resin injection stage while it is pressurized during the mold filling and curing stages via a VARTM pressure control system designed in this paper. Theoretical calculations and simulation methods are used to reveal the resin's in-plane, transverse, and three-dimensional flow patterns in multi-layer media.

The multiparty coherent channel and its implementation with linear optics.

The continuous-variable coherent (conat) channel is a useful resource for coherent communication, supporting coherent teleportation and coherent superdense coding. We extend the conat channel to multiparty conditions by proposing definitions on multiparty position-quadrature and momentum-quadrature conat channel. We additionally provide two methods to implement this channel using linear optics.