por LlucMarti | Ago 11, 2022 | Story-time
In the early 1970s, DuPont’s Kevlar ballistic fabric was invented. During the mid-1970s, Kevlar was incorporated into a National Institute of Justice evaluation program to provide lightweight body armors for law enforcement officers. Kevlar armor was found...
por LlucMarti | Ago 9, 2022 | Getting technical
In braiding, a mandrel is fed through the center of the machine at a uniform rate and fiber yarns from moving carriers on the machine braid over the mandrel at a controlled rate. The carriers work in pairs to accomplish an over/under braiding sequence. Two or more...
por LlucMarti | Ago 3, 2022 | Newsfeed
Let’s kick off our newsfeed with very exciting news: Ducati introduces lightweight motorcycle seat support rear frame! Mitsubishi Chemical Europe. Has displayed a lightweight motorcycle seat support rear frame developed through joint R&D between MCC subsidiary,...
por LlucMarti | Jul 28, 2022 | Getting technical
Many different properties of composite materials can be acquired through a stress-strain graph, such as Maximum Tensile Strength, Yield Strength, Young’s Modulus, Resilience, Toughness, etc. As you can see, each different reinforcement shown in this graph...
por LlucMarti | Jul 26, 2022 | Story-time
It was 71 years ago, in 1949, that the world’s first automotive body made out of a revolutionary new »wonder material», glass-reinforced plastic (also known as GRP, fiberglass, or glass fiber) was conceived and made. The GRP car in question was the...
