Original Article
  • A Study on the Reduction of Resin Infusion Time and the Enhancement of Interfacial Properties in an Electric-Field-Assisted VaRTM Process

  • Jeong-Gyu Kim*, Hyeon-Ju Seong*, Jin-Ho Choi*, Seung Yoon On*†

  • * School of Mechanical Engineering, Gyeongsang National University

  • 전기장 적용 VaRTM 공정의 수지 주입 시간 단축 및 계면 특성 향상에 관한 연구

  • 김정규* · 성현주* · 최진호* · 온승윤*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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Correspondence to

  • Seung Yoon On

  • School of Mechanical Engineering, Gyeongsang National University

  • E-mail: seungyoon@gnu.ac.kr