Description

Filament Wound Epoxy Cylinders and Rings: High-Performance Composites for Demanding Applications

Our Filament Wound Epoxy Cylinders and Rings offer exceptional strength-to-weight ratios, superior chemical resistance, and precise dimensional accuracy, making them ideal for a wide range of demanding applications. Manufactured using advanced composite technology, these components provide a cost-effective alternative to traditional materials like metals and ceramics, while offering enhanced performance characteristics.

Key Features and Benefits:

• Exceptional Strength and Stiffness: The filament winding process creates a highly optimized fiber orientation, resulting in superior tensile, compressive, and flexural strength. This allows for lighter weight designs without sacrificing structural integrity.
• Superior Chemical Resistance: The epoxy resin system provides excellent resistance to a wide range of chemicals, solvents, and corrosive environments, ensuring long-lasting performance even under harsh conditions. Specific resin systems can be tailored to meet specific chemical resistance requirements. Please consult with our engineers for details.
• Precise Dimensional Accuracy: Our manufacturing process ensures tight tolerances and consistent dimensions, minimizing the need for secondary machining and reducing overall costs. Custom dimensions and tolerances are available upon request.
• Lightweight Design: Compared to metal counterparts, our filament wound cylinders and rings offer significant weight reduction, leading to improved fuel efficiency in mobile applications and reduced transportation costs.
• High Fatigue Resistance: The continuous fiber reinforcement provides exceptional fatigue resistance, ensuring prolonged service life even under cyclic loading conditions.
• Customization Options: We offer a wide range of customization options, including:
  • Fiber type: Various fiber reinforcements (e.g., fiberglass, carbon fiber, aramid fiber) can be used to tailor the mechanical properties to specific application needs.
  • Resin system: Different epoxy resin systems can be selected to optimize chemical resistance, temperature resistance, or other properties.
  • Wall thickness: We can manufacture cylinders and rings with varying wall thicknesses to meet specific strength and weight requirements.
  • Dimensions: Custom diameters, lengths, and inner/outer diameters are available to meet your exact specifications.
  • Surface finish: Various surface finishes are available to enhance aesthetics or provide specific functional properties.
  • Internal features: Features such as threaded inserts or bores can be incorporated during the manufacturing process.

Typical Applications:

• Aerospace: Pressure vessels, structural components, and aerospace components requiring high strength-to-weight ratios.
• Automotive: Structural parts, pressure vessels, and components requiring high strength and chemical resistance.
• Industrial: Pressure vessels, storage tanks, piping components, and other applications requiring robust and corrosion-resistant components.
• Oil and Gas: Piping, pressure vessels, and other components used in harsh environments.
• Robotics: Lightweight and strong structural components for robotic arms and other mechanisms.
• Medical: Components for medical devices and equipment requiring high precision and biocompatibility (specific resin systems required).

Materials:

• Fibers: Fiberglass, Carbon Fiber, Aramid Fiber (Kevlar®, Twaron®) - Options available depending on strength, weight and chemical resistance requirements.
• Resin: High-performance epoxy resins tailored to specific application needs. Specific resin properties available upon request.

Specifications:

• Diameter Range: [Specify range]
• Length Range: [Specify range]
• Wall Thickness Range: [Specify range]
• Tolerances: [Specify tolerances – e.g., +/- 0.010"]

For detailed specifications, pricing, and lead times, please contact our sales team. We welcome the opportunity to discuss your specific application requirements and provide a customized solution.