BST
uses the worlds most advanced pre-impregnated Carbon
Fibres and resins - supplied
by the industry leading UK based Advance
Composites Group Ltd - to
produce the strongest motorcycle wheels you can
buy.
Because of its clear strength and weight advantages,
Carbon Fibre is now the default material in many
advanced fields and ACG's composites are used in
all the following application areas. See further
below for latest project news...
- Motorcycle
- wheels, frames, fairings, exhausts
- Racing
bikes – frames, wheels, handle bars etc.
- Motorsport
- now most of the car including large parts of
the engine
- Super
cars and everyday vehicles – especially
lightweight electric cars
- Trains
inside and out
- SpaceShip
I and II (the Virgin Galactic spaceships -
all ACG Composites)
- Space
communication satellites
- Aircraft
Airbus350
and Boeing
787 are largely composite
- Military
aircraft & Light
sports aircraft
- Vehicle
armour for military and civilian applications
- Combat
Helmets & Body Armour
- Helicopter
Blades
- Submarines
- Racing
yachts - hulls and masts
- Sports
equipment & winter sports equipment
- Cranes
and booms (extending arms on ready mix trucks)
- Civil
structures, lightweight bridges (very quick to
install because of weight saving with equal strength)
- Musical
instrumensts (very stiff and insensitive to moisture/
temperature so stay in tune)
- High
precision measuring equipment (lightweight, very
stiff and temperature insensitive)
- Fast
moving parts in many machines (e.g. weaving looms)
- Chemical
plant (very resistant to attack)
- Wind
and tidal turbines
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| Advanced
Composites Group Ltd joins The BLOODHOUND SSC Land
Speed Record Team |
| Composite
materials, tooling, and the design and component
manufacturing capability of Advanced Composites
Group Ltd. (ACG), part of Umeco Composites Structural
Materials (UCSM) - a Division of Umeco plc,
are being provided to The BLOODHOUND Project,
an international education initiative focussed
around a 1000mph land speed record attempt. |
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With a 30-year pedigree, acquired in the demanding
and fast moving markets of Formula One, racing yachts
and aerospace, ACG is ideally positioned to deliver
the performance materials and the design and manufacturing
expertise required to help the BLOODHOUND SSC (Supersonic
car) team realise its dream of breaking the 1,000mph
barrier, inspiring future generations of engineers
and scientists.
ACG
has unrivalled experience in taking composites
technology into new and challenging environments,
including the Southern Ocean and Space, and
this depth of expertise was a key factor in
the selection of ACG as BLOODHOUND’s composites
design and manufacturing partner.
Using ACG’s high performance prepreg materials,
Advanced Composites Engineering (ACE), the Group’s
engineering division, will manufacture the entire
front section of the car, constructing the master
models and tooling from which critical elements
of the car’s bodywork and structural components,
such as the monocoque and nose, will be produced.
ACE will also manufacture the air intake and
rear wheel fairings, areas which are vital to
the aerodynamic performance and stability of
the car. |
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Mark Chapman, Chief Engineer for The BLOODHOUND Project
said, ‘It was clear very early on that we could
build a strong and creative partnership with the ACG
team. We valued their input from the start when they
helped us optimise our designs to make best use of
ACG’s composites capabilities. We’re looking
forward to working with them closely in the coming
months as we move beyond the design phase and actually
build BLOODHOUND – the world’s ultimate
racing car.”
The plan may be for BLOODHOUND SSC to travel faster
than a bullet, but speed is not the car’s only
raison d’etre. On the contrary, the car is the
focal point of an education programme which it is
hoped will inspire a generation of young people to
pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering
and Mathematics (STEM subjects), show-casing these
disciplines in the most exciting way possible.
The car is designed not just to break the world land
speed record of 763.035mph (measured over a mile),
set by Andy Green in ThrustSSC on October 15, 1997
in the Black Rock Desert, USA, but to obliterate it!
Green, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot by day, will
be at the wheel of BLOODHOUND SSC in 2012 when the
team starts its programme of high speed runs on the
Hakskeen Pan, Northern Cape, South Africa.
All the BLOODHOUND design and operational data will
be made available live on the web as the project develops,
thus enabling tomorrow's scientists and engineers
to follow the Project’s progress in real time.
Nearly 5000 UK schools in the UK have already signed
up to use BLOODHOUND curriculum-ready resources to
bring their science and maths lessons to life. This
number is expected to grow dramatically once the car
has been built. In addition, six million teachers
world-wide will have access to the Project via Intel’s
‘Skools’ initiative.
The BLOODHOUND Project is billed as an ‘engineering
adventure’ and the physical and technical challenges
inherent in trying to reach 1000mph mean it is more
akin to a moon shot than a typical race car programme.
ACG draws on three decades of experience of competing
– and winning – in the most difficult
conditions. That’s why ACG relishes the challenge
of working with the BLOODHOUND team to reach 1000mph,
creating an inspiring, enduring legacy.
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