Feather Weight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers

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Feather Weight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers
FWCFRP

• Light Structures can be found in Natures
  Harmony.
• Why not in High Tech Structural Applications?

Birds feathers layered structure in macro scale
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Feather Weight Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers
FWCFRP

• This feathers structure can be compared with
  porous structures in composite materials and
  introduce Nano- enabled Micro- and Macro-
  Porosity in C.F.R.P.

FEATHER LAYERED STRUCTURE CFRP LAYERED STRUCTURE
Feather consists of hollow calamus/rachis Carbon fiber ply consists of hollow fibers.
FEATHER LAYERED STRUCTURE CFRP LAYERED STRUCTURE
Calamus is surrounded by smaller hollow calamus (barbs) Hollow carbon fibers can be surrounded in the interlayer by porous matrix in the nano-scale