Material: Carbon Fiber

Carbon fiber is a modern compound material characterized by very low weight, and extremely high tensile strength and rigidity. It can be used in a wide variety of applications, from high performance turbine blades to fuselage components of supersonic jets.

One of its few disadvantages - if not the only one - is a very high cost: It is the most expensive available reinforcement fiber - and that is the main reason why this material is not more commonly used.

Carbon fiber is easy to handle and can be molded much like fiberglass (it is still incomparably stronger and lighter) although some advanced techniques are necessary to achieve the maximum potential of this material.

One of the significant advantages of carbon fiber comes from the fact that in the manufacturing process, the reinforcement may be applied in any direction, and super-thin, multiple layers can be built up, perfectly aligned with the direction of stress that the particular structure is likely to encounter. This allows the designer to specifically reinforce the structure in the direction of anticipated stress and remove the unnecessary material from areas with little stress - thus further reducing the overall weight. The structural versatility of this composite material means it can be easily formed into complex, but still extremely strong shapes.

As a result, carbon fiber can be used to produce structures that would be virtually impossible to be built of metal (unless they would be thicker, larger, and obviously incomparably heavier).

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