Composite and Sports

Composites industry is blooming and almost everything in different industries have been showered by its lustre; from shipbuilding to aircraft automobile; from housing fixtures to fashion accessories & more!

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It has also invaded the world of sports from sports shoe to protective gears to sports accessories and equipments. This material constitute over 80% of the sports equipments used especially in Olympics. These paraphernalias are either made by fiberglass or carbon fiber with epoxy resin.

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Various benefits like being light weight combined with rigidity, vibration-absorbing capacity and hard wearing, impact resistance, watertight and low cost are a few of the advantages that amateur, professional sports and sports enthusiasts desire for when it comes to their sports buddies.

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Take for example the pole in one of the most interesting Olympic event, the pole vaulting. In the youngest years of Olympics, pole vaulting utilized bamboo then aluminum. These materials however decreases the vaulter's running speed which allows him/her to vault lower plus the energy it wastes as it straightens up which also helps the vaulter to reach their goal. Hence the turn to composite materials which proved to be lighter than the aforementioned materials.

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The pole of pole vaulting sport is composed of filament wound of fiberglass core wrapped with woven carbon fiber and epoxy resin as the second layer and the outer cover with unidirectional carbon fiber and epoxy resin.

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Another sports that has been invaded by these incredible matter is archery and tennis whose bow and racquet equipments respectively are embodied with composite materials like carbon or fiberglass and epoxy resin. These materials give the gears their rigidity and the ability to absorb vibration as these sports require during action.

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No matter what the sport is composite has its raid not only in macro scale industries but also in sports where application of these matters are unthinkable but with the innovative power of the human mind has made it possible and the aim to perform at their best. 

The Polyklear Composites welcomes all inquiries, comments and suggestions. Leave us a message and we will get back to you immediately. You can also email us at inquiry@olympus.com.ph.