Performance Materials
At Composite Builders, we use a range of advanced materials to cater to various applications, delivering high-quality, reliable composite solutions tailored to our clients' specific needs. By combining and customizing specialized fibers with polymers, we can significantly enhance performance, ensuring the material properties meet precise application requirements.
Materials
Ceramic Matrices: We employ ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) for applications requiring exceptional thermal stability and mechanical strength. These materials are ideal for high-temperature environments, such as aerospace and defense, where they provide superior performance and durability.
Conductive Matrices: Our expertise includes the use of conductive matrices, incorporating materials like carbon nanotubes and graphene. These composites enhance electrical and thermal conductivity, making them suitable for electronics, aerospace, and automotive applications.
Cyanate Ester Resins: Cyanate ester resins are known for their high thermal stability, low outgassing, and excellent mechanical properties. These resins are particularly beneficial in aerospace and military applications, where they offer superior performance under extreme conditions.
Standard Resins: Our capabilities extend to the use of standard resins, including epoxy, polyester, and vinyl ester. These resins are widely used in various industries due to their versatility, strength, and cost-effectiveness.
High-Performing Adhesives: We utilize aerospace-grade adhesives that offer high bond strength, thermal resistance, and durability. These adhesives are essential for structural bonding, which ensures the integrity and reliability of composite parts in demanding aerospace applications.​
Composite Fibers: We work with a range of composite fibers to enhance the properties of our materials:​
- Carbon Fiber: Known for its high strength-to-weight ratio and stiffness, ideal for aerospace, automotive, and sporting goods. - Kevlar: Offers excellent impact resistance and tensile strength, commonly used in ballistic and protective applications. - Fiberglass: Provides good strength and durability at a lower cost, suitable for a variety of industrial and consumer products. - Bast Fibers: Natural fibers like flax and hemp, offering sustainable and eco-friendly options for composite materials. - Aramid: High-performance fibers known for their heat resistance and strength, used in aerospace, military, and industrial applications.
Fiber Weaves: We build to print, applying a variety of advanced composite weaves to meet diverse application requirements.​​
- Uni-Directional (UD) Weave: All fibers run in a single direction, providing maximum strength and stiffness along that axis. Ideal for aerospace and sporting goods applications requiring high tensile strength and rigidity. - Spread Tow: Utilizes wider, flatter tows of fibers to create a smoother, more uniform fabric with reduced crimp and improved mechanical properties. This weave is ideal for applications requiring high strength and low weight, such as aerospace and high-performance sporting goods. - Plain Weave: The simplest pattern with fibers interlaced in an over-and-under sequence, providing a stable and strong fabric, suitable for flat surfaces and applications where dimensional stability is crucial. - Basket Weave: Similar to plain weave but with two or more warp and weft yarns woven together as one, providing a flatter, stronger, and more pliable fabric, suitable for applications requiring a textured and durable material. - Twill Weave: Creates a diagonal pattern by passing the weft yarn over one or more warp yarns and then under two or more warp yarns, offering better pliability and durability for complex shapes, commonly used in automotive and aerospace applications. - Satin Weave: Involves floating the warp or weft yarns over several yarns before interlacing, creating a smooth and lustrous fabric that conforms well to curved surfaces, ideal for reinforced plastics and applications requiring a smooth finish. - Quasi-Directional Weave: Incorporates fibers oriented in multiple directions (0°, 45°, 90°), offering balanced strength and stiffness for complex structures like automotive and marine components. - Leno Weave: Locks warp yarns in place by crossing them over each other and interlacing with the weft yarns, providing stability and preventing yarn slippage, suitable for applications requiring lower aerial weights but specific thicknesses.