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Composite Forged versus Carbon Fiber tradicional

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By Dezer - 2/8/2019 11:03:11 PM

Hello,

I have a piece made of forged composite (carbon fiber) and it is used in motorsport and I need to make a piece of it using the traditional carbon fiber fabric, this piece has 2mm, I would like to know how many layers of carbon fiber it takes to have a similar mechanical property?

I intend to use carbon fiber with weights 200 g / m² and 300 g / m² and epoxy resin.

The manufacturing process will be done by vacuum infusion using silicone bag membrane because of the large scale manufacturing of that part.
By Dezer - 2/25/2019 9:43:17 PM

 
Lester Populaire - 2/12/2019 12:03:19 PM
"Forged carbon" is a term often used with thermoplastic resins, in which case the performance would be quite a bit lower compared to epoxy. so in that case thickness could be smaller too.


I have not yet found any technical study with mechanical tests comparing the two processes, but in my conception I believe that carbon fiber wefts have mechanical properties greater than those of forged composite.