Core materials general questions

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Chrima-motorsport	Chrima-motorsport posted 12 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 10	Hey! I have some questions about core materials. We don't have a lot of experience of carbon yet. We will attend the easy composites course, but i am so unbelievably curious to this so I cant wait. We have made some simpel instrument panels. Just simpel flat once. So there is alot of things here that is new to us. The thing I wounder the most at the time is, why do you use core materials? Does it improves strength? I have been working alot with mechanics on formula cars with a honeycomb monocoque. I didn't think so much over the carbon construction of it at that time. It just struck me the last year. In a monocoque its pretty obvious that you use honeycomb to absorb the kinetic energy produced during an impact. But say that i'm making a front bumper for my race car wich is a normal roadcar body so it got the crash zones in the body. do I need to use any core material in the front bumper. Or why is core so important? I'll like to thank you for any replys to my simple questions =)
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