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Carbon Fiber |
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The Beging
Carbon fiber was invented back in the ninteeth century when Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan invented a light bulb and used the carbon fiber in the bulb. They made the carbon fiber by carbonizing cotten and bamboo. |
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Carbon fiber components and structure is primarilly due to the reduce weight and the increased tensile strengh. Due to these properties carbon fiber can be up to ten times the strength of steel. |
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The picture of the car shows one of the uses of carbon fiber today. It is used on the bodys of cars like this one to make the car lighter so that it may go faster and because of its wieght it may improve on gas milage. |
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Industry Production
-1961 carbon fibers where manufactured from polyacrylonitrile in Osaka, Japan.
-1971 that small amounts of carbon fiber were being produced for the sale industry. -1973 they started to produce fishing poles and golf club shafts.
-mid. 1970's high proformance carbon fiber yarns were being used in the air craft industry.
-early's 1990's carbon fiber anilox rolls were being exsperimented with |
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Production of carbon fiber and heat changing it. |
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When heat is used it can change the make up of carbon fiber from something fairly simple make up like the one shown above, to a much more complex arangement. |
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For more in formation on the production of carbon fiber when the heat is change you may try this web site-
http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/carfsyn.htm |
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