Use of advanced composite materials usually offers components which are lighter and stronger than conventional materials. One of the potential applications for use of such materials is mine engineering machinery since it needs light weight good mobility and high strength. Cable reels are natural candidates of braided textile composites which contain an interlaced fibrous preform as the reinforcement providing a structural integrity only developed liquid molding techniques can combine. Metal attachments with the composite structure during the fabrication process. Thus the strength of the structure is guaranteed. There are two main challenges in the development of high performance textile composites. One is the design and manufacturing of the textile preforms and the other is the liquid molding process for fabricating the composite parts. The key issue is to develop integrated textile preforms with the required performance for structural applications and processibility for the fabrication process. The proposed work in this project is to evaluate and characterize the performance and processibility of fibrous preforms and resin materials and then develop the braiding process for the reinforced preforms and liquid molding process for the composite cable reels
Keywords: braided composites design for manufacturing fiber reinforcement high strength composites
