Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers create exceptionallystrong and lightweight new metal

"A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light
structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus, or
stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium
infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide
nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes, spacecraft,
and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as in mobile
electronics and biomedical devices."

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php

By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the
poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy.

Per sms:

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php

By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the
poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy.

That would be welcome news for windsurfers. Carbon-fiber booms and
masts have gone out of sight since the aircraft industry bid up the
price of carbon fiber..... so maybe the aircraft industry will
transition over to the new stuff if/when the cost ever becomes
competitive.
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Pete Cresswell

On 12/25/2015 8:45 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per sms:

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php

By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the
poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy.

That would be welcome news for windsurfers. Carbon-fiber booms and
masts have gone out of sight since the aircraft industry bid up the
price of carbon fiber..... so maybe the aircraft industry will
transition over to the new stuff if/when the cost ever becomes
competitive.

The aircraft industry has had mixed results with CF. It's very difficult
to repair minor damage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/business/boeings-787-poses-new-challenges-for-repair-teams.html

I don't think Boeing likes anyone using the "P word" like the NYT uses:
"The thin plastic skin on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is an engineering
marvel..."

On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 12:07:25 PM UTC-5, sms wrote:
On 12/25/2015 8:45 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per sms:

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php

By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the
poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy.

That would be welcome news for windsurfers. Carbon-fiber booms and
masts have gone out of sight since the aircraft industry bid up the
price of carbon fiber..... so maybe the aircraft industry will
transition over to the new stuff if/when the cost ever becomes
competitive.

The aircraft industry has had mixed results with CF. It's very difficult
to repair minor damage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/business/boeings-787-poses-new-challenges-for-repair-teams.html

I don't think Boeing likes anyone using the "P word" like the NYT uses:
"The thin plastic skin on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is an engineering
marvel..."

..................

Boing's plasticraft is surfaced with CF sheets that are not structural AFAIK

Magnesium corrodes. No mention of this in the intro I read.

Yes, a 1 pound bicycle will surface...not this year or next.

Boing's plasticraft is surfaced with CF sheets that are not structural AFAIK

Magnesium corrodes. No mention of this in the intro I read.

Yes, a 1 pound bicycle will surface...not this year or next.

duh we retract.....read that as Mn not Mg ....

Mn corrodes, Mg burns.

On 12/25/2015 10:45 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per sms:

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php

By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the
poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy.

That would be welcome news for windsurfers. Carbon-fiber booms and
masts have gone out of sight since the aircraft industry bid up the
price of carbon fiber..... so maybe the aircraft industry will
transition over to the new stuff if/when the cost ever becomes
competitive.


Are there Chinese windsurf suppliers?

And we pause to note the previous industry takeovers by cast
magnesium (Kirk Precision) and beryllium (Beyond
Fabrications). As the great sage Yogi Berra quipped, it's
hard to make predictions, especially about the future.

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Andrew Muzi
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Open every day since 1 April, 1971

when you the see the fork in the road take it


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when you the see the fork in the road take it




Always go to your friends' funerals or they won't go to yours.

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duane

On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 3:16:32 PM UTC-5, Duane wrote:
wrote:
when you the see the fork in the road take it




Always go to your friends' funerals or they won't go to yours.

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my friends are all immotal

Duane writes:

wrote:
when you the see the fork in the road take it




Always go to your friends' funerals or they won't go to yours.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, in
practice, there is.

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