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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| 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/