Go: Drive & Camp

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For most of the caravan’s history, it has almost always contained wood. Not that wood is a bad thing, but technology has given engineers and designers modern materials with plenty of benefits that suit the caravan industry. Problems that caravans of

Mini Magazine

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For automotive use, carbon fibre was once the preserve of Formula One. Bringing benefits of its ultra low weight and massive strength, it’s a highly specialist material requiring specialist equipment to manipulate. And due to this, it wasn’t cheap. T

Ultimate Adventure Bike

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Kit weight including all the hardware (i.e. fuel pump, mount plates, brackets, lights) = 15.6 kg Kits manufactured from a matrix of composite materials such as carbon fibre/Kevlar and glass fibre 2 x supplied tanks are 7L per side and constructed

Racecar Engineering

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The automotive industry is currently facing a period of great change as various legislation will force the vast majority of production cars to be hybrids or EVs within the next decade. Other legislation will see the remaining combustion engines limit

Racecar Engineering

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Up to 85 per cent of a Formula 1 car is made from carbon fibre composite components, yet these only account for roughly 20 per cent of the car’s overall weight. With the minimum weight now regulated to 740kg without fuel or driver, this equates to ar

F1 Racing UK

4 min de citit

In last month’s column we looked at composite materials and investigated the plethora of different fibres, weaves and resins that allow these materials to be accurately tuned to the many different requirements of strength and stiffness required in a

VWt

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The dashboard is a work of art in its own right. Both the lower dash and the Golf flat-bottomed steering wheel have been treated to some forged carbon thanks to Dan Pritchard Carbon. Rather than using traditional carbon fibre sheets, forged carbon is

Racecar Engineering

7 min de citit

Carbon fibre is not a recent invention, it has been around for more than 150 years, but the last half-century or so has seen significant improvements in its manufacturing process that allow for its excellent strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight

Racecar Engineering

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With a view to the future, Prodrive Composites has been developing natural fibre composites, bio-resins and considering all aspects of its business from a sustainability and recycling standpoint. ‘We have parallel developments using two approaches

CAR

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Carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) is an extremely strong, rigid and light composite material with many engineering applications. For once, I allowed my emotional side to overshadow my technical mind as I marvelled at the beauty of one of Blackst

Australian Sky & Telescope

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LAST YEAR I WROTE about Tom Bartol’s massive equatorial mount. He made it to carry his home-built 25-cm f/5.6 Newtonian telescope, which has a cardboard tube OTA. After the mount was finished, the scope seemed a bit shabby compared to its shiny new s

Cruising World

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The nifty keelboat Saltash—an eight-time winner of Australia’s Brisbane to Gladstone Race—is getting a new lease on life from the craftspeople at Norman R. Wright & Sons using WEST SYSTEM® Epoxy and carbon fiber. Currently upturned in the yard at Nor

Apple Magazine

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Continuous Composites got its start with a stab wound. When a strand of fiberglass punctured Ken Tyler’s skin, the North Idaho inventor started thinking about the strength of the lightweight material. Tyler was working for a local boat manufacturer a

Racecar Engineering

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Under the skin of any modern racecar, at least of the Sports Prototype or formula variety, is the tub, or monocoque. A multi-functional component that must fulfil many design requirements, some of which are diametrically opposed. Its primary role is

Cycle World

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Photography by DREW RUIZ and JEFF ALLEN The finished parts that we casually call “carbon fiber” are more than that. They are composites made of super-strong crystalline carbon fibers, held together by an epoxy resin. The proper name is Carbon Fiber R

Bike

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FOR ABOUT A HUNDRED YEARS, BICYCLES were made of steel. Road bikes, mountain bikes, it didn’t matter. Steel had been the default ever since we climbed down off Penny Farthings and embraced the ‘safety bicycle’ back in the 1880s. Bicycles were assembl

Ultimate Adventure Bike

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AIM+ (Advanced Integrated Matrix Plus Multi Fibre) shell construction is smaller, lighter, more compact and extremely aerodynamic 4 shell sizes ensure a custom fit SM Shell: XS-SM helmets MD Shell: MD helmets LG Shell: LG helmets XL Shell:

Futurity

3 min de citit

By optimizing the core elements of sandwich structures, researchers have created materials that are extremely light, robust, and adaptable at once—ideal for aerospace applications. “It is our philosophy to develop modern composite materials for adapt

Racecar Engineering

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Formula 1 is a hotbed of innovation, and carbon is one of the mainstays of the modern motor racing era. From the first carbon monocoque chassis that McLaren developed and raced in its MP4/1 in 1981, the material has become ever more prevalent and now

Power & Motoryacht

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BY JEFF MOSER One of the many perks of a sea trial is those other activities a builder will roll into a boat tester’s day aboard. Some years back, that’s how I found myself 40 miles off North Carolina’s Ocracoke Inlet, eating sashimi—with wasabi made

Cyclist Australia

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When someone refers to ‘VAM’, the chances are they are talking about how fast a rider can climb. It is an acronym for ‘velocità ascensionale media’, an Italian term that means ‘average ascent speed’. There is a reason it was coined in Italian – the i

Cruising Helmsman

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IF you have a fibreglass boat, which many of us do, have you ever wondered about the quality? I have and suspect this question comes to mind fairly often when pounding into a nasty sea and the forecast is for more. In such circumstances every little

Cycling Plus

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£8.99 – £65 With prices ranging from a pint to a meal for two, here are six bottle-holding options Birzman’s tough 41g Uncage has an unfussy yet attractive design that’s formed from a high-polymer material. Generous bolt slots ensure easy fitting and

REVOLUTION DIGITAL

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MOVEMENT Hand-wound BVL 362 minute-repeating calibre, 42-hour power reserve CASE 40mm Carbon Thin Ply, water-resistant to 10m. STRAP Black titanium bracelet Bulgari’s Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater Carbon is a new and stunning version of the pretty a

Trade-A-Boat

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New South Wales-based manufacturer Van Munster Boats recently unveiled the enigmatically named Whiskey Project, which drew crowds of curious attendees at the Pacific 2019 Expo. The project utilises Van Munster’s small boat expertise and utilises bran

Trade-A-Boat

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The use of carbon fibre on the flybridge is just one example of the leading technologies and materials Azimut invests in each motoryacht. Over ten different types of multiaxial fabrics are used in the layup procedures including the use of DIAB (a Swe

TechLife News

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Continuous Composites got its start with a stab wound. When a strand of fiberglass punctured Ken Tyler’s skin, the North Idaho inventor started thinking about the strength of the lightweight material. Tyler was working for a local boat manufacturer a

Superyacht International

6 min de citit

Faced with such a resounding success story many seem to be asking themselves even if a little irrationally what’s behind it all. However as far as Monte Carlo Yachts is concerned this is a very pertinent and well founded question: firstly there’s a p

Caravan and Outdoor Life

2 min de citit

Okto Caravans, the newest manufacturer in South Africa, was founded by a group of caravan experts and enthusiasts with many years of experience in the industry. The team behind this new caravan brand includes Keith Laing (owner), Tinus van Wyk (manag

Yachts & Yachting magazine

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The past 70 years have seen numerous revolutions in boat building, but many of the fundamental principles remain unchanged. While the aim is the lightest, stiffest and strongest structure possible, few campaigns have the resources to achieve that ide