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...
por LlucMarti | Feb 3, 2022 | Story-time
The use of fiberglass dates back to 1836 when Ignace Dubus-Bonnel received the world’s first patent on a method of making them. At the time, fiberglass was hard to make thin enough to be completely flexible, and no reliable method of mass production existed. These...
