Provided herein is a spar cap having a profile for guiding and receiving a shear web for wind turbine blade. Particularly, the present disclosure provides a pultruded spar cap having a bond gap feature to maintain a uniform space for distribution of bonding paste between the spar cap and shear web. Also, the spar cap is formed with locating features which guide and receive placement of the shear web.

Provided herein is a spar cap having a profile for guiding and receiving a shear web for wind turbine blade. Particularly, the present disclosure provides a pultruded spar cap having a bond gap feature to maintain a uniform space for distribution of bonding paste between the spar cap and shear web. Also, the spar cap is formed with locating features which guide and receive placement of the shear web.

A method for inspecting a joining surface (14) of a substrate, wherein a component is to be adhered to the joining surface of the substrate by means of an adhesive material (27), wherein the method comprises the following steps: •—providing at least one planar test textile (20), which has a fiber material (21) and an adhesive primer (22), •—applying the planar test textile to at least one part of the joining surface of the substrate to which the component is to be adhered so that the adhesive primer of the planar test textile contacts the joining surface of the substrate, •—at least partially curing the adhesive primer of the planar test textile in order to integrally bond the planar test textile to the substrate by means of the adhesive primer, •—pulling off the planar test textile after at least partially curing the adhesive primer and inspecting the joining surface by means of a qualitative evaluation of the fracture pattern between the cured adhesive primer and the planar test textile and/or by means of a quantitative evaluation of the pull-off force determined when pulling off the planar test textile.

A method for inspecting a joining surface (14) of a substrate, wherein a component is to be adhered to the joining surface of the substrate by means of an adhesive material (27), wherein the method comprises the following steps: •—providing at least one planar test textile (20), which has a fiber material (21) and an adhesive primer (22), •—applying the planar test textile to at least one part of the joining surface of the substrate to which the component is to be adhered so that the adhesive primer of the planar test textile contacts the joining surface of the substrate, •—at least partially curing the adhesive primer of the planar test textile in order to integrally bond the planar test textile to the substrate by means of the adhesive primer, •—pulling off the planar test textile after at least partially curing the adhesive primer and inspecting the joining surface by means of a qualitative evaluation of the fracture pattern between the cured adhesive primer and the planar test textile and/or by means of a quantitative evaluation of the pull-off force determined when pulling off the planar test textile.

A method of manufacturing a spar cap for a wind turbine blade part, comprise the steps of: providing a plurality of precured elongated fibre reinforced resin elements stacking the plurality of fibre reinforced elements, an interlayer of an elongated non-cured fibre material being arranged between successive fibre reinforced elements, thereby forming a stack of precured fibre reinforced elements, moving the stack of fibre reinforced elements to a spar cap mould comprising a mould bottom and mould side walls, arranging the stack of fibre reinforced elements in the cavity of the spar cap mould infusing resin into the stack of fibre reinforced elements in the mould allow the resin to cure and demould the stack

The invention provides a powder pre-preg comprising as sole resin a vinyl ester resin having a Tg in the range of −5 to +30° C. and a melt viscosity @100° C. in the range of 2 to 75 dPa.Math.s, which can be used in making a composite at a temperature as low as 80° C.

A three-dimensional (3D) printing system and method for printing with the 3D system. The 3D system includes a pneumatic dispense gun for mixing a thermoset resin and catalyst and dispensing a catalyzed resin to a rotary dispense valve for application of the catalyzed resin to a substrate on a movable table. The dispense gun contains a catalyst injection unit and a mixer for mixing the catalyst with the thermoset resin. The mixer is downstream of the catalyst injection unit and the catalyst injection unit includes a catalyst injector and a distribution ring surrounding the catalyst injector. One or more first pumps are provided for pumping the thermoset resin from a storage container to the pneumatic dispense gun. A second pump is provided for pumping the catalyst from a storage container to the dispense gun.

Provided are a fiber-reinforced resin molding material with which a lightweight and high-strength fiber-reinforced resin molded article can be easily obtained and a method for manufacturing the fiber-reinforced resin molding material. A fiber-reinforced resin molding material in which a reinforcement fiber sheet whose basis weight is 200 g/m.sup.2 or greater and 3,000 g/m.sup.2 or less is impregnated with a resin composition such that a content of the resin composition is 25 volume % or greater and 55 volume % or less, in which in a case where a total amount of the resin composition contained in the fiber-reinforced resin molding material is 100 mass %, a thickness from a first surface in a thickness direction of the fiber-reinforced resin molding material to a position occupied by 10 mass % of the resin composition is represented by d1 (μm), and a thickness from a second surface opposite to the first surface to a position occupied by 10 mass % of the resin composition is represented by d2 (μm), an absolute value (|d1−d2|) of a difference between d1 and d2 is 50 μm or less. A method for manufacturing a fiber-reinforced resin molding material, including: impregnating a reinforcement fiber sheet formed of at least one selected from the group consisting of a unidirectional sheet in which a plurality of continuous fibers are arranged in parallel in one direction, a woven fabric in which continuous fibers are woven, and a non-crimp fabric containing continuous fibers with a resin composition having an initial viscosity of 1 Pa.Math.s or less and having a viscosity of 5,000 Pa.Math.s or greater and 150,000 Pa.Math.s or less after leaving for 7 days at 25° C.

The invention relates to a method for producing a component (9) by means of stereolithography, having the steps of: A) generating a component (9) in accordance with a virtual 3D model of the component (9) by curing a liquid plastic (7) using stereolithography, and B) cleaning the component (9) through at least one rotational movement of the component (9) about an axis of rotation or about multiple axes of rotation, wherein residues of the liquid plastic (7) are removed from the surface of the component (9) by a centrifugal force resulting from the rotational movement.

The invention also relates to a 3D printing system for implementing such a method.

Provided is a method of manufacturing a carbon fiber sheet molding compound, the method including: performing sizing treatment on a carbon fiber using a sizing agent; cutting the sizing-treated carbon fiber into pieces; spraying the pieces of carbon fiber onto a first resin coated on a surface of a first carrier sheet; and uniting together a second resin coated on a second carrier sheet and a surface of the first resin, wherein the sizing agent, the first resin, and the second resin include the same compounds.