por Soraya Adan | Abr 20, 2023 | Smart Content
Las industrias de la automoción y la aeronáutica son dos de las más relevantes dentro del sector manufacturero en España, llegando a aportar entre ambas el 11% del PIB del país.La competitividad de estos 2 sectores y, en general, del sector manufacturero español...
por LlucMarti | Ago 18, 2022 | Story-time
The use of composite materials in military equipment started much earlier than you think! In about 1200 AD, Mongols invented the first composite bows made from a combination of wood, bamboo, bone, cattle tendons, horns, and silk bonded with natural pine...
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...
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...
