Fiber Glass Mat-Reinforced Plastic
Chemical Composition:
Silicon Dioxide 52-56% min
Calcium Oxide 16-25% Max
Aluminum Oxide 10-12%
Boron Oxide 8-12%
Magnesium Oxide 0-6%
Sodium Oxide 0-1%
Potassium Oxide 0-1%
Material Description:
A material consisting of extremely fine glass fibers, used in making various products, such as yarns, fabrics, insulators, and structural objects or parts. Also called spun glass.
Extraction process:
The manufacturing process for glass fibers suitable for reinforcement uses large furnaces to gradually melt the silica sand, limestone, kaolin clay, fluorspar, colemanite, dolomite and other minerals to liquid form.
BASIC PROPERTIES | |
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Carbon Footprint (Av. KGCO2E/KG) | |
Recycable | |
Laser | |
Small Laser | |
Milling | |
3D Printing |
Advantage in the context of digital fabrication:
Fiber Glass mat is a material that can be used as structure, as a conecting surface, as a molding material, its flexible, it can be used to form diferent kinds of density, its light weighted.
Material Suppliers:
Price:
1. Servie Estacio 1.95€/m
Reference Project 1
Nanotectonica Instalation
su09_nanotectonica installation (University Kassel) Kassel – Germany (2009). Diseño, Studio Jonas Coersmeier, Digital Design Department, University Kassel. Fotografías, galería de “Studio Jonas Coersmeier” en flickr. http://blog.bellostes.com/?cat=99&paged=3
Reference Project 2
Supernatural Chair
“Supernatural Chair”
Chair by Rose Lovegrove 2005
http://molestandoahodgkin.wordpress.com/category/mobiliario-exterior/