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coleio
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posted 9 Years Ago
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ive been looking into composites for a while now and was under the impression that epoxy resins are the only resins that are used but just now I have come across the following
cyanite ester
bmi
polyimide
what can you tell me about these resins before I go spend hours researching on google
thanks,
Cole
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They certainly aren't 'common' resins, that's for sure. Cyanate ester I know of, BMI and polyimides I'm not familiar with. What led you to these resins? Epoxy is very far from the only resin that is used in composites, but the other common ones are vinyl ester and polyester. Then you've got slightly more specialist acrylics, polyurethanes, even silicones. There's heaps of them out there, but the three you have listed are definitely very specialist, they aren't something you will pick up from your local fibreglass store! Haha.
Cyanate ester is an aerospace resin. Works much like vinyl ester, but has very high performance properties. Tg of over 400C or something ridiculous, and tougher than epoxies. Extremely high chemical resistance. From memory it's one of the NASA space shuttles that is made from carbon/cyanate ester. I know it's also used quite extensively in making printed circuit boards for hostile environments.
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thanks for the reply, I came across them on tencate's website
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If its the same as the prepreg version BMI is mad stuff ,its a ceramic prepreg
has n out life of about 10 minutes !
comes off the roll and the material is soaking wet almost like its wetlay
used it lots for heatshields in f1
throw in in a bag and cook at 180 an once its stripped its post cured to 450 if I remember correctly
very light parts an once post cured you can pick them up by hand straight out of the oven
you think you have cleaned your work area an tools down but next morning you will have a fine white powder on everything the material touched
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If its the same as the prepreg version BMI is mad stuff ,its a ceramic prepreg
has n out life of about 10 minutes !
comes off the roll and the material is soaking wet almost like its wetlay
used it lots for heatshields in f1
throw in in a bag and cook at 180 an once its stripped its post cured to 450 if I remember correctly
very light parts an once post cured you can pick them up by hand straight out of the oven
you think you have cleaned your work area an tools down but next morning you will have a fine white powder on everything the material touched
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Total brain fade and too many materials !
one I just described isn't mbi !
used mbi on gearboxes,fairly normal to lay up but you have to double breather and release everything do to the resin dissolving bagging !!!
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