That CEO of the carbon fiber submarine was cheaping out and or delusional. Carbon Fiber used in solutions where it's properties are known and accounted for are usually less weight and really durable strong parts, but could be brittle in certain situations.
@@ABUNDANCEandBEYONDATHLETEcarbon fiber is simply not suitable material to be used at 4000m below sea level. They are basically playing russia roulette whenever they dive
I'd love a small writeup of the type of carbon fiber used and even a simple cost breakdown. I'd love to use knowledge for other projects, and y'all certainly know a lot about which materials you'd prefer for your builds.
@@DarkAeroInc That would be awesome! If you could link to a sheet with supplies used and how you sourced them, I would be eternally grateful. Lots of carbon fiber, epoxy, and other stuff out there, and not all of it is great.
If it's almost pure carbon, I think you can compress it around a tesla coil, so you can run extreme voltages through it at different rates, and it should resist melting. I think the carbon will get extremely hot, but because of magnetic induction I think, just the very outer edge of it does this, and becomes white hot, passing the heat out and away from the soft, conductive coil underneath. Over time, the carbon wears away, and would probably need replaced, but, passing gas around the coil while using it would probably slow this down a great deal.
It's kind of cool to see that not every type of carbon fiber requires an autoclave. Boeing shoving almost an entire 787 into an oven does seem to be a quite limiting feature...
Exactly, the pressure strength comes from the resin. The tension strength from the carbon fiber. But in a submarine is all about compression. So technically is not a carbon fiber haul, it is a resin haul.
The mold surface is an epoxy gel coat. The backing or reinforcement for the mold is made from carbon fiber. A foam core is added for additional strength and to help maintain the mold's shape.
