1. College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China;
2. Center for Civil Aviation Composites, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
The carbon fiber laminates are fabricated by wet compression molding method. We have designed two molding parameters of infiltration time and curing pressure to fabricate the laminates. The micro appearance of the laminates’ section was observed by metalloscope. The molding qualities of laminates were represented, which include the thickness, fiber volume content, ILSS, compression and tensile strength. Results show that the laminates have good quality with the infiltration time being 4 minutes and the curing pressure being 1MPa, there are few defects in the section, and the mechanical properties have relatively improved by 5%–11.45% compared with others; with the increase of infiltration time, the mechanical properties showed a rapid and then slow trend; with the increase of curing pressure, the fiber volume content and tensile modulus of laminates showed an increasing trend. The fiber volume content and tensile modulus have the largest value 66.12% and 86.50GPa respectively, when the infiltration time is 10 minutes and the curing pressure is 1.5MPa.