Carbon fiber has quietly become the material of choice wherever performance really counts, from jets and race cars to bikes and rackets. It is not just a cool woven pattern, it is a deliberate way to ...

Modellers and makers who have been around the block for a few decades generally have their preferred materials. Balsa wood, sheet metal, brass tube… these were all staples of the hobbyist workshop.

Let's be honest: Everybody talks a good game about making safety a priority in their racing program, but when you get right down to it many racers have a hard time spending their cold, hard cash on ...

WMG, at the University of Warwick, has worked with partners, to create a new design of incredibly lightweight Very Light Rail (VLR) vehicle frame which is weaved, or braided, from carbon fibre ...

Emergency medical stretchers, particularly those used by the military, require a difficult-to-achieve set of parameters: they must be lightweight and foldable so as to be easily carried in a backpack, ...

Carbon fiber is a material with some very unique and valuable properties. In fact, it offers the best stiffness –to-weight ratio of any material you are likely to find, either made from metals or ...