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Welcome to dark matter composites blog

Here at Dark Matter composites we get all sorts of questions. Some are about our courses, some are technical questions & some are just funny (or at least Quite Interesting). We've now put a FAQ page on our website, so it seemed a good place to start for our first blog.

Clever Design

21/1/2016

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Carbon fibre gets used for a lot these days,  sometimes it’s for all the right reasons & it’s designed and fabricated well, other times it’s not.  Here at Dark Matter Composites we love looking at new and fun developments in the world of composites, as well as the more serious stuff.  This week's caught our eye and is well worth a look, particularly if you (are old enough to) remember the excitement about VTOL on the Harrier, (or nerdy enough) to love Science fiction or play with remote control models.

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Disney uses carbon fibre to create wall-climbing robot

https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/vertigo/

https://youtu.be/KRYT2kYbgo4


In particular we loved the two tilt-able propellers that provide thrust to propel it on horizontal and vertical surfaces.  It's nimble and lightweight design made us wonder what it's future applications may be, especially as can it travel along ceilings upside down.

Then we started analysing the design, with comments like 'what a lot of excess carbon fibre, fixtures and fittings!'   Rodney is sure he could loose half of it, in particular, make the suspension in a single sprung piece, use a little bit of core on the motor mounts and rings.... you get the picture.  Although he did have special commendation for the controls/software engineers.


The combination of clever engineering design and good use of materials and processes makes it one of our most fun  Best Engineering Design contenders.

On our Engineers and designers courses we take great pleasure at getting delegates to 'think outside the box'.  Regardless of whether you work in Formula one or aerospace, transport, orthotics, construction or civil engineering,  great composite design involves using the materials to their best advantage. If you have any contenders email us & let us know.


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In 2015 we saw a sharp increase in our consultancy services which included conceptual designs, production problem solving, facility designs and proof of concept prototypes, sadly we aren't allowed to talk about any (at least not yet!)

It is definitely an interesting time to be involved in any sort of engineering.  I'm just hoping space travel will become an every day, affordable, occurrence in my lifetime. Maybe it's little developments like this which bring us a tiny bit closer?

Rosemary (nerdy enough to love science fiction).

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