Brief Introduction of Composite Materials

Composite materials are very versatile and are used in an exceedingly kind of applications. Composite components offer superior strength, stiffness with light-weight, and might be shaped into any form. a perfect applications are large complex-shaped structures like fibreglass covers. Composite product are ideal in applications where high-performance is needed like aerospace, race cars, boating, equipment, and industrial applications. The foremost wide used composite material is fibreglass in polyester resin, that is usually said as fibreglass. fibreglass is light-weight, corrosion resistant, economical, easily processed, has sensible mechanical properties, and has over fifty years of history. it's the dominant material in industries like boat building and corrosion equipment, and it plays a significant role in industries like architecture, automotive, medical, recreational and industrial equipment.
The typical composite materials may be created with fibers like fibreglass, carbon fiber (graphite), Kevlar, quartz and polyester. The fibers are available in fiberglass chopped strand mat, short fibers mat, woven material, unidirectional tape, biaxial cloth or triaxial cloth. The resins are typically thermal set resins like polyester, vinyl ester, epoxy, polyurethane and phenolic resin. The resins begin as a liquid and polymerize during the cure process and harden. And the weight ratio of fibers to resin will vary from two hundredth fibers to eightieth resin to 70th fibers to half-hour resin. Generally the higher fiber content provides even higher strength and stiffness, and continuous fibers give higher strength and stiffness. The application of composite materials provides engineers the powder to tailor the combination of fibers and resin to satisfy design demand, and perform higher than standard materials.