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F1 Supplier Releases $38K Carbon Fiber Chassis for the Build of Your Dreams
- turtleyacht 3y agoNo mention of shelf life. Recently CEO said Titan’s hull made with carbon fiber that was past airplane shelf life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36467900 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36467900 - 47 minutes ago (5 comments)
- Our_Benefactors 3y agoSorry, I don’t see what this comment has to do with the OP story, at all. Carbon fiber has been used in automobile construction for nearly 2 decades in a production capacity. It’s a mature technology which has proven itself.
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- turtleyacht 3y agoYes, there's no reason to suspect the carbon fiber monocoque is substandard. F1 and deep-sea diving occupy "at the limit" or extreme performance envelope of materials, so it would be important to constantly evaluate the material, especially under repeated stress. Carbon fiber bikes will suddenly break, while metal bikes fail gradually, right? With carbon fiber deep underwater or hurtling at greater orders of magnitude, the material stresses and quality checks seem to be even more crucial. "Shelf life" in this instance may or may not be a related engineering detail, and may not be specific to this story.
- turtleyacht 3y agoThe first sentence sounds sarcastic, but I did not mean it that way. I meant, "Yes, (since the article only mentions availability of a new carbon fiber chassis and nothing else about related accidents), there's no reason to suspect the carbon fiber monocoque is substandard." Maybe the comment itself is inaccurate? I'm not sure.
- satiric 3y agoFinished carbon fiber parts don't expire - it's the raw prepreg (carbon fiber that's been pre-impregnated with epoxy) that expires.
- turtleyacht 3y agoThank-you. That clarifies things for me.