What is the difference between FRP and carbon fiber?
Glass fiber (formerly known as English: glass fiber or fiberglass) is a kind of excellent inorganic non-metallic materials, variety, has the advantages of good insulation, strong heat resistance, good corrosion resistance, high mechanical strength, but the disadvantage is brittle, poor wear resistance. It is a glass ball or waste glass as raw materials by high temperature melting, wire drawing, winding and weaving process for production, the filament diameter of several microns to twenty micron, the equivalent of a hair 1/20-1/5, each bundle of fibers by hundreds or even thousands of root root filaments. Glass fiber is usually used as reinforcing material in composite materials, electrical insulation materials and insulation materials, circuit boards and other fields of national economy.
FRP is a composite made of resin and glass fiber, while carbon fiber is only a single material. But the glass steel now evolved into a collectively, not only composite resin and glass fiber made of glass steel, resin and other fibers, including carbon fiber made of composite material we also often referred to as glass steel. But carbon fibers are much stronger than glass fibers, and carbon fibers are electrically conductive. High strength, antistatic, carbon fiber glass fiber reinforced plastics. In general, carbon fibers can be a kind of raw material for glass fiber reinforced plastics (FRP), which is obviously different.
Carbon fiber (carbon fiber, referred to as CF) is a new kind of fiber material with high strength and high modulus fiber with carbon content of more than 95%. It is a flaky graphite, microcrystalline and other organic fibers stacked along the axial direction of the fiber, obtained by carbonization and graphitization of microcrystalline graphite material. Carbon fiber "an hand in a velvet glove lighter than aluminum," the quality, but the strength is higher than that of steel, and has the characteristics of corrosion resistance, high modulus, in the national defense and civilian areas are important materials. It has not only the intrinsic characteristics of carbon materials, but also the softness and processability of textile fibers. It is a new generation of reinforced fiber.
