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How are Carbon Fibers Manufactured
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...
How Kevlar Bulletproof Vests became a reality?
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...
Braiding
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...
July’s Top Composite News!
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,...
How does the properties of composites materials fair against each other when it comes to their strain-stress curve?
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...
What was the first car to use fiberglass reinforced plastics?
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...
How thin are carbon fibers?
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...
Which was the first high-performance fiber used by the composite industry?
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...
Composite Materials Course
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,...
Why does carbon fibers possess such a high modulus in the direction of the fiber?
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...
Which was the first composite material manufactured by humans?
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...
June’s Top Composite News!
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...
Managing Composites closes 1,5M€ funding round by Bouwen, to accelerate growth
Managing Composites, the engineering company specialized in composite materials projects, today announced the close of a 1,5M€ financing round by Bouwen Sistemas Industriales, holding of Itera Mobility Engineering, Hidragrup and Sinfiny.
Do you know which car was the first to use composites?
To answer this question, we will have to go back to the 1930s!
What are the differences between thermoplastic and thermosetting?
Let’s investigate their chemistry to find out!
Composites in Architecture
We will see how composites can be used in architecture
Monocoque Design Course
Learn, in-depth, what the monocoque design process is like when using composite materials.
MP4-1 first composite design F1 chassis!
Today’s history lesson takes us back to the 80’s to discover how McLaren Racing designed the first fully composite F1 chassis.
March’s top composite news!
5 of the most interesting news covering composite materials published in March!
Why are carbon fibers so thin?
The answer lies in their structure!
Recotrans Project by AIMPLAS
RECONTRAS project validates the use of microwaves and laser welding to obtain recyclable composites.
The history of fiberglass
The use of fiberglass has changed along these years.
Fundamentals of Applied FEA Course
The Native Lab is launching its first course of 2022 and it is on a new topic: Finite Element Analysis.
Spray-Up Process!
Spray-up has different alternatives and we are going to explain you in this post.