Carbon Fiber Wheels

Post by **C7Steve** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:02 pm

What's your thoughts on these?

http://youtu.be/PGGiuaQwcd8

Steve.

j2 lot · Post by **j2 lot** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:26 pm

I wonder how they would cope with hard knocks - alloy bends, does carbon fibre not ultimately shatter?

Jacobite · Post by **Jacobite** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:22 am

Thanks for that - well worth watching IMO

robin · Post by **robin** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:58 am

j2 lot wrote:I wonder how they would cope with hard knocks - alloy bends, does carbon fibre not ultimately shatter?

Of course a lot is to do with the shape of the object and the way the carbon fibre has been woven vs. the casting techniques used for the alloy.

In principle I think the ultimate strength for carbon fibre vastly exceeds that of aluminium based alloys. So whilst you're right that a CF based wheel will probably never deform until such time as it fails catastrophically, the alloy wheel would have failed catastrophically at a lower force anyway.

Cheers,
Robin

tut · Post by **tut** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 8:34 am

Love to watch programs like that, especially from a small specialised company like Koenigsegg.

tut

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