4. Sporting goods

Racing bikes

Frames are made of filament-wound carbon-epoxy tubes and assembled by epoxy bonding (e.g. Vitus-Bador bicycles and other brands).

Windsurfing

Ordinary boards are simply polyester-glass skins applied to foam cores, but modern high-performance boards can be of sophisticated construction with graphite-epoxy reinforcements as shown in figure 11 . The whole is coated with an external epoxy-fiberglass composite....

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References

(1) - ROSSELLI (F.), CARBUTT (P.) - Comparison of traditional boat assembly methods versus structural bonding. - ITW Plexus european division (2001).
(2) - DESSARTHE (A.) - Assemblage des matériaux composites, sandwichs et matières plastiques. -...