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A project log for Composite Motorcycle Skidplate Designs

Do high-end skidplates need to be made of carbon fiber? Lets find out!

david-troetschelDavid Troetschel 04/01/2019 at 14:280 Comments

We have been working on developing a code to facilitate the computation of properties of a given composite.

This started as a spreadsheet but has since moved to code.

Information from this is used to feed data to Solidworks for FEA Simulation.

Since this is a rather complicated subject I won't get into this too deep.

Essentially composites behave differently depending on the orientation of yarns and resin to fiber volume fractions among many other factors such as actual form.

By changing the design or layup we have a completely different result. Typically this is insanely proprietary, mostly because its difficult to explain haha.

Because composites layup is a heavily hand labor influenced process the results can vary quite a bit, adding confusion. Think of this as a very scientifically informed craft.

I will upload our spreadsheet.

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