Advancing Composites - Adding Carbon Fiber to the Designer’s Palette

Last update on Oct 12, 2017

The versatility, low weight and high strength of carbon fiber makes it the ideal material to use for more commercial, military and industrial applications than perhaps any other substance that is currently available.

Some of the factors that are leading to an increased interest in the carbon fiber market include:

Structural and performance advantages
Continuous emergence of new and unique applications, and
An increased demand from emerging economies

While carbon fiber is more expensive than traditional glass fiber, the stiffness and strength to weight ratios that it provides are significantly higher.

In addition, carbon fiber offers non-corrosiveness, electrical conductivity, and chemical inertness to the products that utilize it in their production. Those benefits are allowing carbon fiber to be used in a wide variety of cutting edge applications that include:

Aerospace
Transportation
Sporting goods
Wind energy, and many more
Composite applications

Having learnt about the advantages that carbon fiber composite offer, let's see how these benefits are being utilized in the recent technical innovations.

The Recent Technical Innovations with Carbon Fiber

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The New Application Areas for Carbon Fibers

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