The Incredible Properties of Composite Materials

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This video takes a look at composite materials, materials that are made up from two or more distinct materials. Composites are engineered to obtain materials with very useful material properties, tailored for specific applications.
In the structure of a typical composite, one material - the dispersed phase - is contained within another - the matrix phase. The dispersed phase usually consists of small particles, or of either short or continuous fibers.
CFRP, or carbon fiber-reinforced polymer, is one of the most commonly used engineering composites. But there are many others, including metal-matrix composites and ceramic-matrix composites, that have uses in many different industries and applications.
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Thank you

[@dave84111]

Please make a video on DFMA

[@NebosvodGonzalez]

Glued Poop. Cuz its shows how meaningless Composite Materials means.

[@Colonies_Dev]

just not for experimental titan submarines lmao 🤣🤣

[@Colonies_Dev]

kinda makes me wonder why they don't make a tank/armored vehicle out of composite material like how kevlar protects humans..it would benefit in terms of reducing fuel consumption, heat signature as a result, and make the vehicle faster? to make it more defensible and evasive and stealthy

[@NaimurR]

This video summarizes the three-credit Composite Material course I took in my senior year. Extremely high-quality content. ❤

[@SirSpence99]

Indeed! It covered the non arts and crafts portion of the first semester of my degree in "Aerospace Composites Manufacturing" What is more impressive is that I didn't catch anything wrong or that was blatantly missed. (At least that could have been fit within half an hour that is...) The reverse of the Gellman amnesia effect I suppose. Rare that you find a summary video that actually does a good job on something you have quite a bit of knowledge on. Always a good sign when the creator talks about things you aren't as familiar with as well... I'm definitely going to be showing this video to several people. At the least I will show it to some high school students I mentor!

[@genetic1752]

which books do you recommend to learn it

[@NaimurR]

@@genetic1752 Mechanics of Composite Materials by Autar K. Kaw

[@DumbledoreMcCracken]

The video is aimed at middle school students

[@kinetic_kane9033]

@@DumbledoreMcCracken Middle school?? Ain't no school teaching composites bruh.

[@abowden5079]

incredible... OP should build a sub to explore the titanic with this incredible material

[@georgedreisch2662]

😂😂😂 …or NASA begin using plywood as a ablative for re-entry vehicles, as being equally appropriate to application.

[@Tensho_C]

​@@georgedreisch2662 i think nasa has legitamite reasoning here, compared to oceangate

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Too soon 😂

[@ccarlock8537]

​@@georgedreisch2662 interesting enough the space shuttle that burned up upon re entry was due to Nasa changed the ceramic heat tiles to carbon fiber ones and the carbon fiber ones cracked and broke

[@turbo_brian]

There's nothing wrong with using composites in compression, anyone can make a sh*t design out of any material and have it fail prematurely. Oceangate's management just had no idea what they were doing. That's why their lead engineer sued them. He knew it was going to fail because poor design decisions were being made. They cut corners (testing) and suffered the consequences.

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Fun fact: Reinforced Concrete is the most commonly used composite material.

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Non reinforced concrete is also a composite material

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you R right @@rkond

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​​@@rkond _Right,_ cement + ... whatever else is in concrete 😅 I... had watched this video too long ago to remember he mentioned this. 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Appreciate it Fabien, thank you! :)

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This is an excellent video, your animations are first class. I'd love to see a second part of this topic dealing with failure modes and adding more detail in the different manufacturing processes.

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As a prospective researcher in the field of Composite Materials, I must say that this is by far the best content I have seen on KZbin.

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As the composite materials engineer from university, I have to say - this video is incredibly informative and accurate! Definitely would recommend it to students

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Literally just started my final year course on composites. Thanks for the great video!

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[@nicolashuffman4312]

Excellent video! I encourage anyone watching this to get into the workshop and build some composite parts. Certain materials and design tools are financially out of reach for most of us, but with a relatively small investment you can make high quality vacuum-bagged carbon parts at home. There are tons of great videos and books out there to help out. You can--and should-- learn all of the theoretical side of composites, but there is no replacement for the understanding derived from making parts yourself.

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Great video, thank you, especially the first half. Maybe for other ideas explaining thermoplastics, RTM injection. Also on sandwich, core can also be metal. Applications for sandwich are also for acoustics attenuation. New types of reasearch include composite material built from additive material techniques (also working for metals) which brings a lot of new ideas to solve old issues

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I am an aerospace engineer that specializes in composite structures. Great video and fantastic animations!

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That thumbnail though! My first reflex was to think "Oh another Oceangate video!" :D

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This has been one of the main reasons I Love composites! Especially when I was in highschool! This is also the best way to deploy graphene and carbon nanotubes, at least for now! The Damping Properties Is Especially Important in Aerospace and Eventually When We Build Megastructures in space! You Could Literally Design a Megastructure with All those Composites with Careful Placement, Giving You a Range of All The Properties You Need Spread Out, and with Other Properties Arranged in Different Configurations for Truly Incredible Abilities! I Had thought of those Honey Comb Stuctures, but Writ Large, and Everything Covered In either a Graphene Concrete Mix, Or Encasing Everything in a Graphene composite of sorts, at least in a Mega Structure.

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This is the best video on composite materials I have ever seen on KZbin. There was a book called The Science of Strong Materials, or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor. It was the best book that I ever read about composites. Additionally the first most interesting introduction to composites I heard years ago was on a series called Infinite Voyage, narrated by Leonard Nimoy. Composites, for most applications, are amazingly strong for their weight.

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[@sepehr2012]

Thanks for this interesting video! One remark: the disadvantages mentioned for CFRPs, such as low-temperature applications or joining difficulties, have been mitigated in the past decades by using thermoplastics and more advanced polymers.

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