Forged carbon is a composite of chopped carbon fibre bundles in resin, hot-moulded under high pressure in a steel mould. It is made by moulding materials such as C-SMC (carbon sheet moulding compound), C-BMC (carbon bulk moulding compound) and prepregs based on chopped carbon fibre.
It has a characteristic marbled structure and nearly quasi-isotropic properties. It allows complex 3D shapes with ribs and inserts to be moulded in cycles measured in minutes. The semi-finished product is C-SMC (sheets) or C-BMC (bulk compound).
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