by LlucMarti | Sep 22, 2022 | Story-time
Let’s talk about the ”World’s Strongest Fiber”, Dyneema! In 1968, chemist Dr. Albert Pennings managed to pull some wispy threads from the stirring rods in his beaker. He found it impossible to pull the strands apart. Excited, he rushed to tell...
by LlucMarti | Sep 20, 2022 | Getting technical
A very useful method of doing this is by plotting them as ”Ashby charts”, which represent each material on the chart as ellipses or ”bubbles”, whose width and height are determined by the range of the value of the properties. As you may already...
by LlucMarti | Sep 15, 2022 | Story-time
Today we will tell the story of the first production carbon fiber bicycle and how it has revolutionized the Tour de France! As with any sport, the competition to be the best leads to innovation everywhere possible, and as all composite lovers already know, carbon...
by LlucMarti | Sep 13, 2022 | Training your entire team
Structural Analysis, applicable to real-life cases involving composites and related to the automotive sector, often isn’t something that can be learned at university. Often it is learned on the job with all the difficulties it entails. So after wide request, The...
by LlucMarti | Sep 8, 2022 | Getting technical
Let’s talk about the failure sequence of carbon fiber specimens! The article ”Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer and Epoxy Adhesive Tensile Test Failure Analysis Using Scanning Electron Microscopy” has many interesting pictures! Morphological...
