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I always thought that carbon fiber weaving was not widespread and thus that was one factor in the high cost of carbon fiber. For example when Lexus was building
by OWaz 15y ago
I always thought that carbon fiber weaving was not widespread and thus that was one factor in the high cost of carbon fiber. For example when Lexus was building their LFA car they also built their own 3D CF loom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9uiP2I6kQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9uiP2I6kQ
- tesseract 15y agoTypically though you don't custom-weave CF into the product shape; you buy CF cloth and lay it into a mold. I think, though, that a lot of composite layup is still done by hand since it is not as easy to automate as a lot of metalworking processes are.