Thermal Expansion Co-effecient: Pultruded vs Roll Wrapped


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I'm looking to use a CF tube for a length critical application with absolute minimum axial thermal expansion, would pultruded or roll-wrapped be better for this application?
If there is any data regarding the thermal properties of each to compare the two types that'd be brilliant.
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A roll wrapped tube will suffer volumetric changes depending on how it's played up

Why carbon, if this is for something length critical there are materials with lower Lte values 
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Any recommendations? Preferably available in 8mm OD tube of 2m lengths?
Been googleing but little doing.
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There is no such data on the manufacturers information we have on our roll wrapped tubes.

To be frank, you will unlikely find that data freely available either as its a very specific application so the manufacturer is extremely unlikely to have bothered to measure those figures.

The Tubes do use a Toray T700 fibre so you may be able to find some data out there for the raw fibre and interpolate/calculate from there.

Warren Penalver
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its depends entirely what kind of accuracies you are looking at 
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