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 know, for composite...
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Failure sequences of carbon fiber specimens!
por 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 characteristics analysis...
F1 Helmets
por LlucMarti | Ago 24, 2022 | Getting technical
It's safe to say that the leather caps and googles use during the '50s are long gone! During the end of the '60s, the first helmets made of a composite material (in this case, fiberglass) were already being developed. But what are F1 helmets made of today?...
How are Carbon Fibers Manufactured
por LlucMarti | Ago 16, 2022 | Getting technical
Carbon fiber is made from organic polymers, which consist of long strings of molecules held together by carbon atoms. Most carbon fibers (about 90%) are made from the polyacrylonitrile (PAN) process. A small amount (about 10%) are manufactured from rayon or the...
Braiding
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...
How does the properties of composites materials fair against each other when it comes to their strain-stress curve?
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...
How thin are carbon fibers?
por LlucMarti | Jul 21, 2022 | Getting technical
The answer is simple, carbon fibers have a diameter between 5 and 10 micrometers. But that is kind of hard to visualize, right? So, let's compare them to something all humans have (some more than others), hair! Luckily, we have a very nice picture that...
Why does carbon fibers possess such a high modulus in the direction of the fiber?
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...
What are the differences between thermoplastic and thermosetting?
por LlucMarti | Abr 21, 2022 | Getting technical
Let’s investigate their chemistry to find out!
Why are carbon fibers so thin?
por LlucMarti | Abr 6, 2022 | Getting technical
The answer lies in their structure!