Questions tagged [carbon-fiber]
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Is distillation inferior to reverse osmosis in desalination?
There is a research paper that states of how water was desalinated water using solar desalination and were able to achieve an efficiency that is 4 times faster than the thermal limit of 1.45kg/m2>/...
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Seeking Advice: Improving Resin Application in Honeycomb Lamination for a Sustainable Project
I am trying to laminate a honeycomb structure with a fiberglass and resin reinforcement. However, I have problems because a large amount of resin falls through the holes of the honeycomb and the final ...
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Case studies in Carbon Fiber composite tubes to verify FEA
Whenever I build a model of something new, I like to have some analytical results that I can compare with my model so I can reassure myself the model is correct. I have some resources that show me ...
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Minimal width of a carbon fiber shell to hold a flying airship
In Aves Æternæ: Building Perpetual Flying Machines you can find the specs for an airship with a rigid carbon fiber shell. It would be around 4m long and 2m wide and high, weigh around 10 kg empty (0 ...
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Is it possible to prove that applied forces to a bicycle top tube are worse than a seatpost when using a repair stand clamp? [closed]
This stems from the idea that you should use a bike stand clamp on a seatpost, if you can, for carbon fiber (CF) bike frames. Hopefully, this would avoid the cracking of a CF bike frame.
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Pros and Cons of Carbon Fibre High Pressure Tank
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using carbon fibre for pressure vessel construction?
Carbon fibre has a very high tensile strength and is very light-weight.
According to this calculator ...
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What are the claimed advantages of using Carbon fiber for a pressure hull? [closed]
Much of the news around the Titan incident has focused on all the reasons that carbon fiber was a bad choice for the hull, but I've yet to see any discussion as to why it was chosen at all.
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Cutting carbon fiber plate with a sub-mm end mill
I have a 2 mm thick high-quality carbon fiber composite sheet. I want to cut a shape in it with a 0.8 mm diamond flute end mill. I need a cut this narrow because of the shape's detail. The shape's ...
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How can a material be good at damping, yet also be strong?
Good Damping
Carbon bicycle frames have the unusual property that they are superior to aluminum frames in high-frequency absorption. A cyclist on a carbon-frame bike will feel tarmac chatter far less ...
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Why is the open-front bike stem design so widespread despite that it may be inferior to the closed-front design?
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Even major bicycle corporations have the occasional
product recall on handlebars.
It's easy to see why. The bike itself is a gentle, light, and nimble ~10 kg (for a road bike) object, whereas ...
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What is the purpose of the woven pattern on Kevlar bullet proof jackets?
The bulletproof vest is made of kevlar fiber. The fibers are woven together. I wonder why we don't use kevlar as a sheet rather than woven fibers.
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How do I calculate the strength of a carbon fiber tube?
I am not a mech engineer and have been struggling with this for a while, I feel like it is pretty straight forward but I'm missing something.
The problem is a horizontal tube that is supported at one ...
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Fuzzy texture in soildworks
Is there a way to add a "fuzzy" texture to a body in solidworks?
Something like this:
The purpose - to 3d print a body with a fuzzy surface to get better bonding
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Best DIY material for a high-torque cog or gear?
I am making a gear/cog to attach to a high torque stepper motor.
I can realistically make it out of the following variety of materials:
3D printer PLA/PLA+ etc.
layered PLA/PLA+ and fiberglass made ...
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Best glue option for laminated Kevlar <> birch plywood for not peeling off
I have a problem where I glue a laminated sheet of Kevlar to birch plywood and it peels off easily
I tried:
Laminating the Kevlar directly on the plywood with lamenting epoxy
Using the laminating ...
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Can carbon fibre be injection molded?
I found very little information about that, but it says that its technically possible, but then why it isnt used instead regular carbon fibre machining? It sounds way easier...
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which kinds of lubricant / grease can attack carbon fibre components and which kinds cause no harm or damage?
It's easy to find many non-expert opinions about the dangers of using grease on carbon fibre components. Which kinds of lubricant cause no harm to carbon components, and which, if any, can damage them?...
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Is it possible/practical to mold a single hollow piece of carbon fiber with a sealed vacuum in the middle?
Let's say I design a simple piece of carbon fiber to be manufactured, in the shape of a simple cylinder with a diameter of 2cm and a height of 3cm (pretty small).
Is it possible and/or practical to ...
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Database for stiffness matrix? [closed]
I have searched everywhere for the stiffness matrix of GFRP, but there isn't a single paper or site that experimented the full matrix. Is there any sort of database for the stiffness matrix of many ...
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Welding Carbon fibre
How do you weld carbon fibre to another piece of carbon fibre? If it can't be welded together what other solutions are there for connecting carbon fibre together?
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Why do they vacuum pump the carbon fiber fabric?
I have seen plenty of YouTube videos in which they use carbon fiber fabric to build various things. One such channel is Mike's Patey's channel where he makes amazing aircrafts from carbon fiber.
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What is the compressive strength of carbon nanotube reinforced polymer?
What is the range of compressive strength of carbon nanotube reinforced polymers?
Although CNT's themselves have phenomenal (oriented) compressive strength, and one can find references to that, CNRP'...
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Carbon Nanotubes as muscles?
I was wondering why carbon nanotubes are not used as artificial muscles yet? I mean they behave similar to real muscles, only that they expand horizontally. What are the current challenges that ...
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What steel to use? What thickness and width? What angles to use? [closed]
I am trying to develop my own spring steel version of a carbon fiber running blade that you might see in the paralympics. Except mine is for someone who still has their foot/leg. Nothing like that ...
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Why are parts from carbon fiber stiff?
I have noob question,I dont understand why are parts made from woven carbon fiber composite stiff.
I understand that carbon fibers are strong and have high Young modulus,its stiff and strong when the ...
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Is triaxial carbon fiber gimmick?
Is there any benefit to using triaxial weave pattern instead of common twill?
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Why is graphlite so strong in tension?
This comes from the composites store website:
These high performance carbon shapes are produced by packing a high volume of carbon fiber into epoxy resin under tension resulting in an unmatched ...
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home-made pultruded components?
If I make a sandwich of wood, thin plastic, carbon-fiber tow (cut to about a foot long) impregnated with epoxy to the right ratio, thin plastic, and wood, and clamp it together and leave it, will I ...
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How is a carbon fiber chassis made one piece?
How is such a one piece car chassis from carbon fiber made at one piece?
Do they make the parts individually and bond it some way that it is extremely durable bond?
What bonds are really durable for ...
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How can I stop carbon fibre mat from fraying?
I want to use a woven carbon fiber tube in cloth form to act as an acoustic absorber in a 40 mm internal diameter pipe. The bad news is that it has to carry a variety of solvent/air mixtures at ...
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