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Carbon Fiber: New Technologies For Better Bicycles

Thought of as an unusual space-shuttle composite just 10 years ago, carbon fiber is now employed in nearly every bike part, from frames and components to helmets and shoe soles. Carbon fibers are made from carbon, the ever-present element that forms coal, graphite and diamond and is part of every organic chemical and every life form on earth. Carbon is the fourth most common element in the universe and the
2nd most common element in the body.

Polyacrylonitrile ( PAN ) fiber, also the source material for acrylic fiber, is created into carbon fiber by heating it to intense temperatures, burning away basically everything except carbon. The resulting 5-8 micron ( millionths of a meter ) thick fibers are a tenth the thickness of a human hair and made of carbon atoms strongly bonded together in microscopic crystals aligned parallel to the fibers axis. Powerful and stiff, the fibers have a stiffness index of 33 million pounds per square inch ( MSI ) and a rough surface. Expensive processing can strip off this outer surface to expose a thinner, smoother
Intermediate Modulus ( IM ) fiber that packs tighter with other fibers for higher rigidity per unit area. A higher priced processing can create High Modulus ( HM ) carbon fibers, which boasts a Youngs modulus rigidity of 42 MSI to 55 MSI or more.

Common-modulus fibers are bundled together into yarn and woven into fabric. A number followed by the letter K designates how many thousands of fibers are in a strand of the yarn ( as in 3K, for 3,000 fibers per strand ). Woven fabric regularly comprises the top layer for classy purposes, but most carbon fibers in a bicycle part instead come in flat sheets of tightly packed parallel fibers pre-impregnated with epoxy resin stuck to backing paper. Precisely cut pieces ( plies ) are stacked, or laid up, atop one another at opposing angles ( usually forty five degrees ), to resist forces from different directions. Unlike metals, carbon fiber plies in the laminate structure can be orientated to form a composite structure that may be stiff in one particular direction and more
Flexible in another. Indeed, plies must be laid up at angles, because carbon fiber, like thread, is robust if you pull on it but far weaker if you push lengthwise on it or bend it sideways. Nevertheless in a carbon fiber tire bead, you dont want strength in stress alone, so orienting fibers at angles and gluing them together with resin allows the plies to work together, opposing forces from all directions. Subjecting the laminate to high pressure and heat in a mould pushes out air and excess resin.

Well-engineered carbon composite parts have high rigidity and strength, low density and high fatigue life but low elongation they can't stretch or bend much before they break. Failures come from not correctly engineering the directions and types of fibers to handle the loads.

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