Carbon Fiber and Carbon Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites for Automotive Applications-A Review

Abstract

Lightweight materials have recently received much attention for the fabrication of various components for industrial usage, particularly in the automotive and aerospace fields. Nowadays, though, recycling epoxy-based composite at the end of its life is very complicated but due to its lightweight and enhanced properties "fiber-reinforced" epoxy based polymer composites are most preferred materials instead of conventional heavy metals. The composites based on epoxy resins reinforced with high-performance fibers such as carbon fiber (CF) are in extensive use for industrial and structural applications. Moreover, Thermoplastics are less expensive, simple to work with and simple to recycle but they can’t give desired properties like Thermosets. The current study encompasses about CF and multiple attempts done over the decades to enhance the mechanical attributes of CF-reinforced thermo-set (epoxy) based composites and to understand the part of many parameters on their performance.