How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
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Hi all Guys :
Currently in the Carbon Fiber Composites Market , There is a type of tubing named Braided Carbon Fiber tubing , You can feel the Fibre when touch the tubing , It is quite different from our traditional tubing that is smoothly finished outside , And Braided 's Strength is quite tough .
It is made of Unidirectional Fabrics , Very light weighted .
Do you guys know how this tubing is made ??? From my experience it is not made by Pultrusion .
Thanks for any answers
Lei
www.leicomposites.com
Carbon Fiber & Fiberglass
Currently in the Carbon Fiber Composites Market , There is a type of tubing named Braided Carbon Fiber tubing , You can feel the Fibre when touch the tubing , It is quite different from our traditional tubing that is smoothly finished outside , And Braided 's Strength is quite tough .
It is made of Unidirectional Fabrics , Very light weighted .
Do you guys know how this tubing is made ??? From my experience it is not made by Pultrusion .
Thanks for any answers
Lei
www.leicomposites.com
Carbon Fiber & Fiberglass





RE: How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
Here is a link to a supplier of sleeving:
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RE: How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
The braided tubes shown in your picture are not the type of 'uniaxial' braid mentioned by Soller, where the carbon is the longtudinal fibre part of a triaxial braid, with the biaxial part being light fibres just to hold the longitudinal ones in place (Soller mention spandex being used as the biaxial part).
Braids are used as part of the GE turbofan blade containment cases, which probably do need to be quite tough. The through-thickness nature of some of the fibres in a thick braid probably helps to resist penetration. Other than that aspect, braids tend to be have many of the characteristics of woven material.
RE: How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
The resin could have been applied by infusion or by prepregging.
RE: How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
And Braided CF tubing is much more expensive than normal CF tubing , This material is much more tough than normal tubing as well , That 's why i want to produce it for Engineering uses .
RE: How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
RE: How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
Does anyone know of a company that sells composite parts built with processes used by large aircraft companies (i.e. unitape prepreg cured with autoclaves - or similar)?
Brian
www.espcomposites.com
RE: How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
What kind of Part you look for ? Made of Carbon Fiber ?
Would you pls show me ? As i know there are many types of Carbon Fiber Parts like hood , canopy , blade used in Aircraft industry .
lei
www.leicomposites.com
Carbon Fiber & Fiberglass
RE: How to make Braided Carbon fiber tubing ?
Eurocarbon is probably the best name for biaxial and triax braids in Europe. There is AP in the U.S. which do the braiding for GE. To accurately control internal and external faces then RTM is probably the preferred technique for moulding the parts.