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If you still don’t know what Carbon Fiber is, then you must have not gave your best in following the latest technologies carmakers used to create their supercars. In fact, apart from cars, ‘Carbon Fiber’ is also found in many other products in out life. For instance Carbon Fiber fishing rod, Carbon Fiber boat, Carbon Fiber bicycle, Carbon Fiber helicopter blades, and the list goes on and on until you reach the Carbon Fiber toilet seat cover.
Say for instance if you still find the words Carbon Fiber weird to you or new in your vocabulary, it is best explained as a simple piece of plastic material used to construct shells for products. You may be thinking what is so special about this piece of plastic? It is actually a textile cloth made out of thin and fine carbon strands weaved together to provide a strong bond that holds the weaving together as a cloth. Apart from that, if it is applied to a suitable mix of plastic resin and then molded to form the ever popular Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP). This is what we see every time when there is a certain show of products made from Carbon Fiber textile.
The textile itself is a nicely balanced weaving that allows low thermal expansion than other materials. Combining the strength after it is molded into the CFRP, it is also known to be less dense than steel but stronger than it due to the weaving structure of the strands of carbon hence making it lighter and stronger than steel. These properties provide good weight reduction, strength, and also minimal thermal expansion under heat application.
Automotive companies take advantage of this and set out to create car parts made out of CFRP. For now we won’t be able to find the Carbon Fiber fabric as easily as a visit to your local hardware store. BMW has already put this material to good use in it’s new BMW M3 coupe using it on the roof to lower the center of gravity of the overall car to give it exceptional handling. Koenigsegg’s race car the CCX-R uses plenty of Carbon Fiber to build its body thus making it super lightweight, giving it the monstrous power-to-weight ratio making it one of the fastest cars in the market today.
Soon we will be able to see this material used widely in production cars to provide the base structure support and body shell. Instead of using mild steel as building material, carbon fiber will soon replace the usage of steel as a natural resource as it will be mass produced, making it cheap and reliable.
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