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. 

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Smile

More often than not, most of us get our teeth filled by dentists and few are blessed with teeth that don't decay no matter what they do! But a beautiful smile that projects neat teeth is everything that matters.

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In the early records of dental filling, Amalgam, one of the materials used for tooth restoration after decay damages the tooth, is composed of liquid mercury, silver, tin, and copper. This material had been used for more than a hundred and fifty (150) years. It is also referred to as “Silver Filling” because of its appearance.

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Another material used for tooth filling is Composite Resin or “White Filling” which is a tooth-colored plastic, again used to reconstruct decayed teeth. This was developed in 1962 by combining epoxy resin and methacrylic acid with silanized quartz powder.

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The material for your dental composites consist of resin matrix (organic content), fillers made of either quarts, ceramic or silica (inorganic part), and coupling agent.

Having a composite resin offers a couple of advantages and disadvantages, as well. First advantage is that dentists can easily blend shades to create a nearly identical color as that of a natural tooth. Second, composites offer adhesive property to your tooth supporting the remaining structure which helps prevent breakage. It also provides insulation from excessive temperature changes.

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The disadvantage is that you may experience sensitivity after. The color of your filling can also slightly change especially when you drink tea, coffee or other staining foods. You can somehow talk to your dentist which filling to use for your comfort. Composites somehow tend to wear off sooner than Amalgams in larger cavities, though they also work well with smaller cavities.

Although, composites have a life expectancy an average of two (2) to ten (10) years.

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