Design News - Engineering Materials - Carbon & Fiberglass Composite Compound Is Cheaper
We've written about the hassles involved in making advanced, thermoset carbon fiber composites cheap enough and fast enough for high-volume, automated automotive manufacturing. R&D by Dow Automotive and Ford, for example, is ongoing. BMW has a first in its all-carbon composite body-in-white, as we've reported. For that structural application, these traditional materials are what's needed.
We've written about the hassles involved in making advanced, thermoset carbon fiber composites cheap enough and fast enough for high-volume, automated automotive manufacturing. R&D by Dow Automotive and Ford, for example, is ongoing. BMW has a first in its all-carbon composite body-in-white, as we've reported. For that structural application, these traditional materials are what's needed.
