MARINE COMPOSITES

摘要

This can be anything from mud and straw huts to concrete reinforced with rebar. However, we usually understand composites to mean fiber reinforcements combined with polymer resin matrix systems. Fifty years ago, marine composites were almost exclusively fiberglass, a combination of e-glass reinforcement and polyester resin. Today, high performance reinforcements, such as carbon fiber and Kevlar, are combined with advanced resin systems to produce very strong, lightweight structures that were not possible fifty years ago. Fortunately, design methodologies and manufacturing processes also have advanced, so everything from racing kayaks to destroyer deckhouses now is built with marine composites.