Carbon Fibre Reinforcement Weights and Weaves Explained
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
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In this tutorial we take a look at different types of carbon fibre reinforcement and discuss their various properties such as weight, weave and format, and tow size (k-count). By the end of the tutorial you should have a better understanding of how these properties impact the behaviour of the reinforcement and therefore how to choose the right carbon fibre fabric for your project.
All of the different carbon fibre reinforcements demonstrated in the tutorial are available to buy from the Easy Composites website.
Please note, EU customers should now use www.easycomposites.eu to buy products directly from our new EU subsidiary based in the Netherlands.
Woven Carbon Fibre Cloth
► 90g Plain Weave 1k www.easycomposites.co.uk/90g-...
► 210g 2x2 Twill 3k www.easycomposites.co.uk/200g...
► 210g Plain Weave 3k www.easycomposites.co.uk/90g-...
► 375g 5HS 6k www.easycomposites.co.uk/375g...
► 450g 2x2 Twill 12k www.easycomposites.co.uk/416g...
► 650g 2x2 Twill 12k www.easycomposites.co.uk/650g...
Unidirectional and Multiaxial Carbon Fibre
► 100g Unidirectional www.easycomposites.co.uk/100g...
► 250g Unidirectional www.easycomposites.co.uk/250g...
► 300g +/- 45 Biaxial www.easycomposites.co.uk/300g...
Spread Tow
► 160g Plain Weave www.easycomposites.co.uk/160g...
► 160g Twill Weave www.easycomposites.co.uk/160g...
Carbon Fibre Tow
► 3k Tow www.easycomposites.co.uk/3k-c...
► 6k Tow www.easycomposites.co.uk/6k-c...
► 12k Tow www.easycomposites.co.uk/12k-... - Наука та технологія
Unbelievable that clear, informative content like this is free. I love the internet. Great job Easy Composites!
Hi Alex, yes, for sure. The internet gets a bad rap these days but people forget how much great content there is out there. If we want to understand other subjects, we turn to UA-cam ourselves, there really is some great knowledge being shared in a way that wasn't even possible 20 years ago.
@@easycompositestv You have to know how to search for information. When you master that craft you will be amazed by what you find!
@@easycompositestv I think you can take huge credit when it comes to people trying their had at moulding and manufacturing, your videos really are top class. Thank you! I’ve recently got my own garage and I’m very interested in trying it myself, I just need the courage to jump in!
Yes, the wonders of carbon fiber is exceeded by Easy Composites ethical policies of sharing knowledge/experience.
@@StefsEngineering Indeed Stef.
Still the BEST source of carbon fiber and infusion methods on the web. Many thanks EC!
Wow, no idea you guys did your own weaving. Always thought it was some mega corp. Excellent content, as always.
Actually the loom shots were taken up the road at weaver who produces our fabrics. The UK was the home of carbon fabric weaving and we're very lucky to have some great weavers right on our doorstep who produce our fabrics. They were very obliging and happy for us to pop round with our gear!
Fantastic video! Hands down the best single overview video of weave types I've ever seen. Keep it up!
Amazing Video. Note that CF strands are ~7um not ~7nm! 1000 times larger!
I don't know who this guy is but I love him
I rarely comment, subscribe or like any video but you guys are just brilliant. I am about to make my first order.
You sure know your business. The progression of this presentation is flawless. The info I got from this video prepped satisfied what I need to know to continue on a project I have in mind. Thank you.
It would be amazing to have a dedicated series covering the different grades, types of lay-up, matrix and way of curing the different materials! Anyway, truly simple and clear explanation on this one! kudos!
Excellent summary!
Thanks DarkAero, Inc - keep up the good work :)
This channel is exactly what I needed. I owe you one
After all these years... you are still producing THE BEST videos on composites. Thanks so much!
Glad you like them and hopefully we can continue to produce similar high quality videos.
thank you so much
Finally! I have been looking for such a video for a while now
Been searching for this video for two years. Finally, carbon fibres explained in a way that I can understand
Glad you found the video helpful. We hope to cover more topics in future videos.
@@easycompositestv A suggestion, you guys should offer some sor of course and certification on composite materials. I am a fresh mechanical engineering graduate and I have so many ideas and products that I want to develop, I see composites as the perfect material for me. Sadly, there was little to no content on composites in our courses. A course and certification from you guys would be really helpful for me and lots of other aspiring design engineers.
The gold standard for how to present technical info. Thanks so much!
Thanks for the awesome feedback, really appreciate the comment!
@@easycompositestv well thanks. I watched the skinning the gun episode and it inspired me to make my own carbon fiber sim racing wheel which was a very rewarding experience. Thank you.
@@sim-racing2277 Its our pleasure, I'm glad it has turned out well for you :)
@@easycompositestv yeah still lots to practice but really pleased!
One of the best educational videos I found so far. I saw one and then binge watched many. Thank you for the efforts.
Really appreciate the kind feedback! Thanks for binging our videos!
I absolutely love this series if videos. The level if information that is jammed into each video is wonderful for someone like myself that has no real experience with CF.
Glad you like them!
I came to UA-cam to be entertained, but apparently I took a wrong turn and am now sitting in a lecture hall. No complaints! Great detailed information from a practical point of view. I love it!
Haha, cheers Ben; that’s UA-cam for you!
Best video ever about composites! Congratulations!!
Dear friends,
I just want to remind you about one of the main inventors of the carbon fiber. His name was Lesley N. Phillips and was a friend of my father (from Sweden, as me). He worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. So I played with small carbon fiber bars in the 60th as a kid.
Once again you guys make a phenomenal video with so much helpful information! Much appreciated! Keep up the outstanding work!
Thanks for the kind words, we appreciate the feedback and encouragement 😃
Easy Composites is number one in lectures
Hand shown the most informative video if seen this far. Thank you!
Another great truly informative video, I've learned a lot from you guys in working with CF, previously it was trial and error for projects, they were only vanity items so strength wasn't important, just being made from CF for the appearance.
I've made some panels recently using a sandwich of thin spread 12k on the outside for cosmetic appearance with 2x2 and unidirectional either side of a foam panel in the middle, surprisingly strong and stiff seeing as I'm still experimenting and learning.
The panel was used as a support bracket for a self made bag which I hang on my Brompton bike to carry my laptop and lunch. I use techniques learned from you guys and other youtube videos and a s a rank amateur with no proper workshop facilities, the results are impressive and improving each time.
Keep up the good work, I'm keen to learn more as are I'm sure other viewers.
Great to hear about your project, glad you’re getting results that you can use and benefit from. Thanks for the feedback and we look forward to giving you some more ideas with future videos.
This is a fantastic video! Brilliantly explained and very well produced.
Very clear and easy to follow, and answered a ton of questions...
Great to see you back Easy Composites!
I really love this channel, you always answer questions I didn't even know I should ask
We try our best to cover everything we possibly can so its great to hear you're learning things you didn't even know you wanted to!! :-)
This might be your best video yet. You guys do an awesome job.
Wow, thanks Kyle, appreciate your comments.
Another excellent instructional video from Easy Composites!
Thank you for the kind comment, we've got more videos in the pipeline!
Very useful! Also, I realized that a lot of diy'ers are using chopped fiberglass and cloth's wrong, and I can see exactly why they struggle to get some weaves to conform to a surface without cutting a bunch of tabs into the cloth. Thank you.
Excellent video @Easy Composites - very clear, informative and great content showcasing the material, inspiring the next generation of composite engineers!
Thanks for the valued feedback, we genuinely appreciate it :-)
Your breakdown is masterful!!!!
Always incredibly good videos guys. Well done and thank you 🙏
This video is very facinating! I've never seen a video going in-depth about carbon fiber.
Thank you for your comment, we always appreciate great feedback like this :)
You answered many questions I've been asking the wrong people for many years. Thank you!!
Hi Andre, thanks for the comment! Glad we managed to answer some of the questions you had :)
Great content as always! It would be very interesting with a video on your take on repairing composites and different methods for this.
Its certainly something we'll consider although we have a lot of new videos and tutorials in the pipeline already. The only 'repair' videos we already have are the Kayak and the Fishing Pole Repair videos.
Always excited when I see a new video from you guys.
I go back to your bonnet video series all the time to remind myself of all the basic principles.
Hi Carl, I'm glad that you continue to find out bonnet video useful!
Awesome video. I learned everything you discussed completely from what I can tell. Informative. Concise. Quick video. I am actually disappointed you weren't going to keep going on longer and teach us more. Lol. 5/5. Would watch again except I don't think it would be necessary.
Excellent video, thank you Paul from Easy Composites!
Incredible video, very understandable, even for a stranger like me (love that accent 😉). You are doing a great job and I have been plenty satisfied of my purchases on your website. Thanks a lot for your work 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for your comment, great feedback like this is one of the reasons we keep making content :)
Excellent information. Thank you.
I love, love, love it, thank you so much. Im planning on doing some difficult contouring shaped on car door panels for mouldings. This helps me alot as to which type of weave fabric to work with and thickness. 😘🥰 I love this!!!!
That's great to hear Alfredo. Look forward to seeing how you get on with your project... all the best with it.
Composites made easy! As always great content, thank you
thank you for sharing what would be considered as kitchen secret by many...
If I ever decide to make something from composite materials, this is the company that I am going to order from! ❤
Fantastic! This is what UA-cam is all about!!
This is incredibly great and valuable content. Thank you.
You’re welcome, we enjoy making and sharing it.
I always learn something from you guys. Keep up the amazing work!
Glad you enjoyed the video Ben!
Amazing video, so well detailed & articulate too. Thank you so much for providing this. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
You’re welcome, we love producing these videos and sharing some knowledge!
@@easycompositestv A big credit to EC Ltd for sharing such knowledge and awesome videos. 😇
A very clear, concise and accurate summary of (most of) the carbon fabric available.
Certainly sufficient for the HammerChewer.
A review of epoxies and other resins would be nice.
Thanks Carl, yes, we’ll do something on resins soon 👍.
Thank you. @11:15 I was looking for an explanation for multiple layers of the same weight for a long time. Well done!
Hi John, we appreciate the comment. Glad you enjoyed the video and explanation!
Exceptional clarity. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed how the video was presented Rick!
Wow ... that was a Masterclass for me.
Very nice and intressing information, it helps a lot to understand the diverence between all the fabrics. Many thanks from your employee in the Netherlands.
Haha, thanks Job! Nice to see you taking in the new content. I'm sure our customers in Europe appreciate your hard work :)
Thank you for all you do from TEXAS
Hi Robert, thank you for the comment! Glad you are enjoying the content :)
Brilliant explanation, thank you.
amazing video, i din learn all these during my composite modules lectures back in uni
It would be interesting to see a similar video on the different types on resin. How each ones cure, how strong they are and with which material or application they should be used.
And as always: keep these exceptional videos up!!
Cheers
Thanks Andy, yes, agreed, this would make an interesting and useful video. We’ll definitely keep it in mind.
Always love seeing new videos from you guys. Great information delivered in a straightforward manner that makes it easy to comprehend. I would love to see you dive a little deeper like this into concepts like determining an optimal schedule and calculating strength needs for both solid laminate and sandwich. Or if you known of good, easily available software for designing a layup (read, not some multi thousand dollar per seat enterprise level software that is utterly overboard for a home DIYer)
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, we do get quite a few questions on this subject but it is a really difficult one to deal with. In the bike frame video we explained how - even for really experienced composites engineers - a combination of previous experience, gut instinct, and trial and error is still probably the main starting point for most laminate schedules. Of course these things can be modelled and calculated in CAD but there are SO many obstacles that, unless you REALLY know what you're doing and have very reliable data - the real life performance of a component can be so far from the predicted performance as to render the CAD/FEA less useful than an *educated* guess.
Having said all that, a video that does go a bit deeper into this subject would be great, just need to figure out what we could do or show that would actually be useful and useable for people!
I'm a French aircraft mechanic composite material specialist... this video is way better for explain composite than my teacher when i was at school lol
I gonna recomand this video to him ^^'
Glad you found this video so useful! Hopefully he likes the recommendation :)
Wow, another great content from Easy Composites! Would be awesome if you could cover laminates with different core materials as well.
We have a couple of videos planned about core material, again, quite a broad subject that's difficult to distil down into a video that would be watchable to most people we seem to get a good reception for the more technical content so stay tuned, this will certainly be covered fairly soon.
Awesome that you got an EU warehouse now!
Interesting to learn about the different weaves, strand counts, weights and applications. Thank you.
I'm glad that you find the process as interesting as us!
Unbelievably good video! Very informative! Thank you! I wish you had a warehouse in the US!
Hi Krisz, thanks, and we do too. We hope to be able to expand State-side soon!
A fascinating product. Excellent explanation, I think working with carbon fiber would be very interesting. Thank you, well done!
Glad you enjoyed Peter!
Great video - the best I've seen on the subject. Thank you, I'll be sharing this one!
Thank you for your great comment! Glad you enjoyed the video and we always appreciate when it's shared to others :)
i enjoyed that. its given me so many ideas for curved structures of my bass speaker box designs that i cant do with timber and have the smoothness, strength and weight. cheers i only stumbled on this site by chance. good work. cheers
Epic video! Such good explanations.
Can you make a video how the filaments are made?!? It will probably be the best video on that topic!
Hi, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately its not something we would have access to facilities to film fibre production ourselves
Wonderful videos, full of solid information and very well described, thanks for sharing ! ! !
Appreciate the comment, glad you enjoy our videos!
We don't need TV.
This was brilliant.
Haha, thanks. Proper telly!
So much information that I wanted to know about carbon weave, head hurts
Haha, sorry about that Matt. Maybe run through it again when you get chance and it will be a bit less intense the second time around!
great content, thank you for all these informations.
Great explanation. Great channel.
I really appreciate the videos.
Great job, your team is leaps and bounds ahead or your competitors…👍👍🤙
We're certainly trying our best :-)
Excellent! Thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed the video Chris!
Amazing! Carbon is the future!
Love the videos thanks so much for doing them!
Glad you like them!
excellent video. thank you.
Paul always bring the best composite tutorials on the web, what a talent
I'll be sure to let the man himself know; he's already back and busy in the video studio!! :)
your videos are top class always... thank you very for the valuable information that you guys share and please keep doing that, you guys are the best
Hi Sahilj, thank you for your kind comment! We've got plenty more videos in the pipeline :)
@@easycompositestv eagle waiting for those
Great again. You guys know how to tell stuff. Thanks
Haha, thanks. Appreciate the support.
Great video. thanks guys !!
Hi Lino, thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed our video!
Brilliant professional presentation 👍🇦🇺
Thanks Bondy, appreciate the feedback 👍
Always great info. Thanks!
Hi Dan, thanks for comment! We've got more videos coming out soon :)
Such an informative upload... thank you so much!🇦🇺🤜🏼🤛🏼😎🍀🍀🍀
Fantastic video 🙂
Thank you for the great overview!
Cheers Mike, you're welcome, we love doing these.
Fantastic information. I will touch base in a year or two to begin the process of re-manufacturing some plastic sports car parts in CF.
Great, look forward to it 👍
Awesome.... thanks Sir,
Great, you should watch this video before the molding process. What you do on the surface will actually be of better quality. Thank you
Thanks for the feedback, yes, this is certainly a video to watch earlier on in a composites project if you're unsure about material selection. We're going to add a link to it to most of the fabric pages on our site to help customers earlier on in their project planning.
Amazing video as always
Cheers Raul : )
love this, looking for your future videos!
Thanks Pham, appreciated your support.
Appreciated. Confirmed some information, learned more too. Thanks
Hi Harry, thank you for the comment! Glad you managed to learn something from our video
Great explanation.
Such great info
Excellent content, thank you
Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you enjoy our content :)