por LlucMarti | Jul 14, 2022 | Story-time
The answer is Boron fiber! Boron fibers were first discovered in 1959 and were developed during the 1960s into the first true high-performance fibers. Until that time, glass fiber was the only other high-strength fiber available in continuous lengths, and the low...
por LlucMarti | Jul 12, 2022 | Training your entire team
WHY THIS COURSE? Composite Materials are less of a choice and more an imperative. Metals and plastics might be the right solution for many engineering challenges. However, composites increasingly allow for a new range of possibilities and solutions! In this course,...
por LlucMarti | Jul 12, 2022 | Getting technical
As many questions related to materials engineering, to answer that we have to understand the unit cell structure of the material, in this case, graphite.The crystal structure of graphite consists of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms arranged two-dimensionally in a honeycomb...
por LlucMarti | Jul 7, 2022 | Story-time
As you may already know, a composite material is, by definition, »a material that is made of two or more different materials, differentiable at a microscopic level, which specific properties are better than their separated properties». Just like any topic...
por LlucMarti | Jul 5, 2022 | Newsfeed
Wind Energy Industry: Let’s kick off our newsfeed with very exciting news: a project that aims to pioneer the use of natural fiber composites in the wind energy industry! The project Green Nacelle is commissioned by DOT (Delft Offshore Turbine), a leading wind turbine...
