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crazyandme	c crazyandme posted 6 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
c Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 31	A colleague and I were having a disagreement in regards to the 0 direction of a material. i have always followed the rule of the longest side of the material is 0 and all orientation is taken from that side. ie length of roll. The material is a Biax with Fibres running at 45 to what I regard as the 0 instead of length and width like most materials. our disagreement comes from how our plys should be orientated in relation to the drawing and the material. what are people thoughts?
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Fasta	Fasta posted 6 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 468, Visits: 3.5K	Your materials have their fibre orientation just as you have shown. Not always the longest side but usually lengthwise along the roll would be considered 0 deg. But then you also have the orientation of your part or piece which is probably the more important thing when setting up/layup your fibres/layers/plys etc. For me then 0 degrees would be the lengthwise or longer direction of your piece or mould. For a tube 0 is lengthwise, etc. If you were working from engineering drawings then the designer would probably state which/where 0 is on the part design. Fastacraft Facebook page Edited 6 Years Ago by Fasta
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crazyandme	c crazyandme posted 6 Years Ago HOT Post Details
c Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 31	+x Fasta - 1/23/2018 6:45:37 AM Your materials have their fibre orientation just as you have shown. Not always the longest side but usually lengthwise along the roll would be considered 0 deg. But then you also have the orientation of your part or piece which is probably the more important thing when setting up/layup your fibres/layers/plys etc. For me then 0 degrees would be the lengthwise or longer direction of your piece or mould. For a tube 0 is lengthwise, etc. The layup calls for +/-45 strips which i considered to be cut at +/-45 from my presumed 0 direction. the other guy was following the fiber direction as his 45, so cutting it parallel to the edge of the roll.
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Fasta	Fasta posted 6 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 468, Visits: 3.5K	+x crazyandme - 1/23/2018 6:56:41 AM +x Fasta - 1/23/2018 6:45:37 AM Your materials have their fibre orientation just as you have shown. Not always the longest side but usually lengthwise along the roll would be considered 0 deg. But then you also have the orientation of your part or piece which is probably the more important thing when setting up/layup your fibres/layers/plys etc. For me then 0 degrees would be the lengthwise or longer direction of your piece or mould. For a tube 0 is lengthwise, etc. The layup calls for +/-45 strips which i considered to be cut at +/-45 from my presumed 0 direction. the other guy was following the fiber direction as his 45, so cutting it parallel to the edge of the roll. Often biaxial tapes are used as joins since all the fibres will pass across your join making it stronger. If this were the case then the tapes are cut across/90deg the roll or lengthwise/0 deg. The tape is the same either way. Tapes like this are also more flexible and easier for laying in complicated shapes. I often cut regular 0-90 carbon cloths at 45deg across the roll just to create these more flexible DB tapes. Fastacraft Facebook page
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