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    Carbon Fibre in The Body of A Formula 1 Racing Car

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    Carbon fibre has revolutionised material science and is aiming to be the best material combining strength and minimal weight for use in Formula 1 racing car bodies. The document discusses the macroscopic and microscopic structure of carbon fibre, which makes it useful for F1 cars due to its light weight and strength. It also allows for aerodynamic shaping of car bodies. Carbon fibre is formed from carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal sheets and crystals aligned along the fibre axis, making it very strong for its size.

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    Carbon Fibre in The Body of A Formula 1 Racing Car

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    Carbon fibre has revolutionised material science and is aiming to be the best material combining strength and minimal weight for use in Formula 1 racing car bodies. The document discusses the macroscopic and microscopic structure of carbon fibre, which makes it useful for F1 cars due to its light weight and strength. It also allows for aerodynamic shaping of car bodies. Carbon fibre is formed from carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal sheets and crystals aligned along the fibre axis, making it very strong for its size.

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    Carbon fibre has revolutionised material science and is aiming to be the best material combining strength and minimal weight for use in Formula 1 racing car bodies. The document discusses the macroscopic and microscopic structure of carbon fibre, which makes it useful for F1 cars due to its light weight and strength. It also allows for aerodynamic shaping of car bodies. Carbon fibre is formed from carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal sheets and crystals aligned along the fibre axis, making it very strong for its size.

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    Carbon Fibre in The Body of A Formula 1 Racing Car

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    Alex Loughlan
    Carbon fibre has revolutionised material science and is aiming to be the best material combining strength and minimal weight for use in Formula 1 racing car bodies. The document discusses the macroscopic and microscopic structure of carbon fibre, which makes it useful for F1 cars due to its light weight and strength. It also allows for aerodynamic shaping of car bodies. Carbon fibre is formed from carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal sheets and crystals aligned along the fibre axis, making it very strong for its size.

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    Carbon fibre has revolutionised material science and is aiming to be the best material combinging strength and minimal

    weight to use in a body of a Formula 1 racing car. This poster will look in to the macroscopic and microscopic structure of carbon fibre which makes it so useful in the body of a Formula 1 Car.

    The whole future of the developmet of Formula 1 racing is to make the car faster than ever before. Developing and researching newer, better materials which contribute significantly in the development of the performance of F1 cars. The material has to be light so that it can improve the cars aerodynamic perfromance as well as strong so that it can support and withold great amounts of force.

    Carbon Fibre is a very suitable choice of material for a Formula 1 racing car because it has the properties that make it appropriate in manufactuaring the car. As carbon fibre is strong, but also lightweight, it is a very good material to use because the lighter the car parts, the more aerodynamic the car becomes and thus improving the performance of the carzdsddsdddddddddddd

    Carbon Fibre is also a polymer which is a form of Graphite which is a form of pure carbon. Carbon atoms are arranged in hexagonal rings which are then stacked on top of each other creating sheets of the carbon atoms. A carbon fibre is mainly made up of carbon atoms bonded together in small crystals that are parallell to the axis of the fibre. The perfect alignment of the crystals makes carbon fibre very strong in comaprison to its size. Thousands of these fibres can then be woven into fabric. This can then be moulded into the desired shape. This is suitable for the body of an F1 car as it it is very stong as well as being light for aerodynamic pupopses. Furthermore it is useful because the carbon fibre can be moulded into the exact shape neede for the body of the car

    Carbon fibres were first developed in the 1950s; they were being tested and experimented with plastic components. At this time, the percentage of carbon was quite low. However in the 1970s further experimental work took place to find a better solution. Using petroleum based material; they could create a carbon fibre that had 85% carbon. As a result of the increased percentage of carbon, the fibres had excellent flexural strength.

    As you can see by the graph, Carbon Fibre is without doubt superior to other common materials as it has a very high tensile strength as well as having a high elasticity. This is one of the unique properties that make carbon fibre useful in the car body.

    As you can see by this graph, Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics have very low heat expansion ratio which is ideal in the body of the car as throughout the use of the car, temperatures could become very hot.

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