Feather Weight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers –
FWCFRP
Light Structures can be found in Nature’s Harmony.
Why not in High Tech Structural Applications?
Bird’s feathers layered structure in macro scale:
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Feather Weight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers –
FWCFRP
This feather’s structure can be compared with porous structures in composite
materials and introduce Nano- enabled Micro- and Macro- Porosity in C.F.R.P.
FEATHER LAYERED STRUCTURE
CFRP LAYERED STRUCTURE
Feather consists of hollow
calamus/rachis
Carbon fiber ply consists of hollow
fibers.
FEATHER LAYERED STRUCTURE
CFRP LAYERED STRUCTURE
Calamus is surrounded by smaller
hollow calamus (barbs)
Hollow carbon fibers can be
surrounded in the interlayer by
porous matrix in the nano-scale