Welcome to the Composites Fabrication Forum

[leccyflyer]

The poll on the proposal to establish a forum for the discussion of composite fabrication techniques has been complete and the propsal passed by a majority of 81% to 19%. Therefore this forum has been created and will remain in the Trial Forums area for at least 30 days to establish the viability of the forum. If the forum proves viable at the end of the 30 day review period it will be relocated to an appropriate position in the Aircraft-General area of the site.

The forum is for the discussion of all aspects of composite fabrication of models and subjects could include laminating, core cutting, vacuum bagging, mould making etc.

The moderator for the forum is Pete Schiess, who you might know better by his old user name of Fok and I'd like to welcome Pete to the Moderator Team. In order to help Pete get started in his new post the admins and super moderators will also be looking in as well during the next few weeks.

So please enjoy the new forum, start posting and lets make it a success.

Brian

[arx_n_sparx]

cool!

[raptor22]

This rocks! I thought my suggestion would pass!

Any ideas who the new moderators will be?

--Alex

[SchiessCo]

Hi Alex - they dug down to the bottom of the barrel and found me - your humble junior moderator.

Pete

[Ollie]

I read an interesting article in the local news paper a couple of weeks ago about nano technology. One of the items covered was carbon nanotubes. While these products are quite prohibitively expensive at present and commercial production is just beginning, there is hope that within a few years the price may come down enough and the fiber length increased enough to be able to use them in models (my opinion only). The interesting thing are their properties of strength and stiffness. They have a youngs modulus of about one tera pascal and a tensile strength of about 30 giga pascals. That would make them about 5 times stiffer and about eight times stronger in tension than the carbon fibers we use today.

[omega blood]

Ollie, I watched a program on the history channel that explained those nano tubes. They plan on useing them to make some seriously tall building and self erecting structures. :cool:

[leccyflyer]

Congratulations!

The Composites Fabrication forum has fulfilled the requirements of the trial period (after a short extension to that trial period) and will now be moved to it's permanent location under the Aircraft-General section of the site.

Well done to all of those who posted to make the forum a success- keep on posting and enjoy the forum.

cheers

Brian

[soholingo]

excellent, it is a good thing you have done.

j

[davidfee]

...And just when I got used to scrolling all the way down to the bottom to find it... ;)

-David