The Characteristics Of Carbon Fiber Composite Components

Carbon fiber materials have also become a material favored by automobile manufacturers, such as being widely used in interior and exterior decoration of automobiles.

As an automotive material, the biggest advantages of carbon fiber are its light weight and high strength. Its weight is only equivalent to 20% to 30% of steel, but its hardness is more than 10 times that of steel. The use of carbon fiber in automobile manufacturing will continue to grow.Carbon fiber composite materials have a series of excellent properties such as high strength, light weight, high temperature resistance, creep resistance, and shock resistance, and are very popular. As an emerging material in the 21st century, the design and production of its structural components are significantly different from general structures, and the design and production processes of materials, structures and processes are completed at the same time. In this article, the editor will talk about the characteristics of carbon fiber composite structural parts.  

1. Material Design

Structural design and process design should be carried out at the same time. In the design of carbon fiber composite components, in addition to considering the matrix material, the layup plan is also designed according to the force characteristics of the component, and the influence of the process plan on the component is also considered.  

2. The Designability Of Structural Characteristics

The strength and stiffness of carbon fiber resin matrix composites depend on the laying direction of carbon fibers, the content of fibers, and the matrix properties of the resin.  

3. The Anisotropy Of The Material

The strength and stiffness of carbon fiber composites along the fiber direction are many times greater than those perpendicular to the fiber direction, and often such a failure mode occurs during the stress process: the fiber direction that bears the main load is not damaged, but low pressure in other directions. The damage occurred under the component design, which should be paid attention to. In addition, the anisotropy of materials is also manifested in that the normal stress on the composite layer of the component will cause shear strain, the shear stress will cause linear strain, the bending distance will cause torsional deformation, and the torsion may also cause bending deformation.  

4. Material Inhomogeneity

Carbon fiber composites are inhomogeneous both macroscopically and microscopically. This inhomogeneity brings about the coupling effect of components, that is, in the case of small deformation, the in-plane internal force will cause bending deformation, and the bending internal force will cause in-plane deformation. , so that the damage forms of the components are complex and diverse.  

5. Lower Interlayer Performance

The shear strength of metal is about 50% of its tensile strength, while the interlaminar shear strength and interlaminar tensile strength of carbon fiber composite components can only reach the shear strength and tensile strength of the matrix resin. The selection of resin matrix is ​​very important.  

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What Is Carbon Fiber?Carbon fiber is made of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) (or pitch, viscose) and other organic fibers by carbonization (removal of most elements except carbon) by pyrolysis method under inert gas at high temperature above 1,000 °C. Inorganic polymer fibers with a carbon content of more than 90%.