Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- 1 Introduction to Heat Transfer During the Forming of Organic Matrix Composites -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Examples of injection of short fiber reinforced composites -- 1.3. Injection on continuous fiber reinforcements -- 1.4. Conclusion: toward a controlled processing -- 1.5. Bibliography -- 2 Experimental Determination and Modeling of Thermophysical Properties -- 2.1. Measurement of specific volume and shrinkage -- 2.2. Determination of specific heat capacity of resin and composites -- 2.3. Thermal conductivity: a tricky task… -- 2.4. Conclusions -- 2.5. Bibliography -- 3 Experimental Determination and Modeling of Transformation Kinetics -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. What are the most suitable devices to analyze a reaction rate? -- 3.3. Modeling of the cure kinetics of thermosetting resins -- 3.4. Overall crystallization kinetics of semi-crystalline thermoplastics -- 3.5. Concluding remarks -- 3.6. Bibliography -- 4 Phase Change Kinetics within Process Conditions and Coupling with Heat Transfer -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Flow-induced crystallization: experimental observations -- 4.3. Flow-induced crystallization: modeling -- 4.4. Effect of the composite components -- 4.5. Concluding remarks -- 4.6. Bibliography -- 5 From the Characterization and Modeling of Cure-Dependent Properties of Composite Materials to the Simulation of Residual Stresses -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Origin of residual stress -- 5.3. Determination of composite properties -- 5.4. Modeling of residual stress -- 5.5. Conclusion -- 5.6. Bibliography -- 6 Heat Transfer in Composite Materials and Porous Media: Multiple-Scale Aspects and Effective Properties -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Effective thermal conductivity -- 6.3. Local-equilibrium model and thermal dispersion.

6.4. Local equilibrium versus local non-equilibrium models -- 6.5. Various extensions -- 6.6. Conclusions -- 6.7. Bibliography -- 7 Thermal Optimization of Forming Processes -- 7.1. Context of optimization -- 7.2. Heat transfer: optimization lever -- 7.3. Definition of the optimization criterion -- 7.4. Problem modeling -- 7.5. Numerical optimization methods -- 7.6. Example of process optimization: determination of optimal heat flux setpoint -- 7.7. Optimal design of molds -- 7.8. Conclusions and outlook -- 7.9. Bibliography -- 8 Modeling of Thermoplastic Welding -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Physics of thermoplastic welding -- 8.3. Linear viscoelasticity to quantify the macromolecular diffusion -- 8.4. Application to continuous welding of composite tape -- 8.5. Application to ultrasonic welding -- 8.6. Conclusion -- 8.7. Acknowledgments -- 8.8. Bibliography -- 9 Multiphysics for Simulation of Forming Processes -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Multiscale, multiphysics and multidomain modeling -- 9.3. Advanced numerical techniques and macroscale simulations -- 9.4. Determination of equivalent properties and microscale simulations -- 9.5. Conclusions -- 9.6. Bibliography -- 10 Thermal Instrumentation for the Control of Manufacturing Processes of Organic Matrix Composite Materials -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Methods based on contact measurement -- 10.3. Contactless heating -- 10.4. Conclusion -- 10.5. Bibliography -- 11 Sensors for Heat Flux Measurement -- 11.1. Motivations: heat flux sensor -- 11.2. Principle of heat flux sensors -- 11.3. Main characteristics of HFS -- 11.4. Type, positioning and use of heat flux sensors -- 11.5. Advantages and limitations of HFS compared to other in situ monitoring techniques -- 11.6. Examples -- 11.7. Conclusions -- 11.8. HFS suppliers -- 11.9. Bibliography.

12 Thermal Radiative Properties of Polymers and Associated Composites -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Fundamental requisites concerning thermal radiation -- 12.3. Prediction of the radiative properties of homogeneous semi-transparent slabs: case of the isotactic polypropylene -- 12.4. Radiative properties of polymer composites with fiber structures -- 12.5. Conclusion -- 12.6. Bibliography -- 13 Infrared Radiation Applied to Polymer Processes -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Infrared radiation characteristics -- 13.3. Modeling of infrared radiation -- 13.4. Polymer processing applications -- 13.5. Future work -- 13.6. Acknowledgements -- List of Authors -- Index -- End User License Agreement.