Imagine you are taking your morning walks in your usual routine. Once again you were greeted by a pure crystalline morning where you could see every bush and boulder on the mountain. Suddenly, as you tried to make another step, you noticed a crack open from the bridge you once jogged before. Confusion arise as to your own safety is at risk, as well as the whole stability of the construction. Times like these, we may stop and wonder not only the credibility of the foundation but also the materials used in question. You may have come across this fictional scenario once or twice in your life. But the truth is, not only once or twice in our lives did we get weary or exasperated because of poor materials used in construction. Our own safety is in the line and we have to do something fast.
Fortunately, there is one trusted material, at least by Civil Engineering field that withstand almost all other materials in terms of strength and durability. If you are already not familiar with it, then this article will walk you through the many positive characters this metal has, and its many uses as well. I am pertaining to none other than carbon fiber.
To give us a general hindsight about how effective this metal is, first, we must recognize what and how this metal was formed. We all have a basic idea about carbon, as an element and how it displays the quality of strength and heat permeability. In the like manner, carbon fiber (also known as carbon graphite or graphite fiber interchangeably) consists of highly fine intricate fibers that are mostly from carbon atoms. So you could just imagine the strength it could produce. By weaving it with microscopic crystals, the material is made stronger.
It is its strength and durability that made it possible for the engineers to make this material their new best tool. Along with that, its being light in weight is also a considerable factor to choose tubes made of these materials as the best option for construction, design and maintenance of buildings, and other man-made built infrastructures including roads, and bridges. Other sub-disciplines of engineering made it possible to rely to these tubes on their fields of expertise. Construction engineering for one, rely heavily on these tubings from the planning stage of the buildings to the execution of the designs, One interesting field is the Materials Engineering. This field actually centered around metals and focus on the study of these including carbon fibers and its proper applications and use alone and when mixed by other metals. This is considerably a huge contribution of the material in buildings and constructions, to name a few.
In the future, it will be such a pleasure for us to walk on the pavements or even cross bridges which parts are made of these materials. Imagine if all the properties of these fibers are to be used in full extent through the process of reinforcements, there will be such a slim chance for rebuilding and destruction for the bridges. In civil engineering field alone, so long as it continuously deals in different designs, construction as well as maintenance and rehabilitations, that long will carbon fiber be a trustworthy partner.
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