A ROLLING MASTERPIECE
Carbonline Wheels LLC. is now announcing the
introduction of the world's strongest , lightest
one piece carbon fiber wheel.
In this view our Carbonline wheel is accented with
candy gold. Carbonline offers a wide
variety of colors to give your
vehicle that "one of a kind" look.
Here is a perfect image
A Bugatti with even more horsepower.
A Bugatti with visual stunning EPIC wheels.
What else would anyone ever want?
THE FUTURE IS NOW
Carbonline Wheels LLC. incorporates all of the
most advanced materials and processes used by the aerospace industry and top motorsport divisions.
Here is another Carbonline wheel accented with a
polished look.
THE EPIC COMBINATION
With the ZR1 already being tailored with 100%
carbon fiber skins it only seemed fitting to let it wear a set of 100% carbon fiber shoes. The Corvette ZR1
carries the fastest speed that Chevy has ever
produced and now that it has CLWs carbon fiber wheels it's
even faster.
PURE PERFECTION!!!
Carbonline Wheels LLC. has rigorously
devoted and dedicated over a decade of time to achieving the perfect wheel. Here is a close-up
view to show the attention to detail of our candy red
carbon fiber wheel.
GOING EURO
Not only did CLW create the world's most lightest and strongest carbon fiber wheel,
they also hit a home run with creating the most universal design.
Whether it be American muscle car or European exotic
CLW perfected the ultimate design cues.
Computational modeling
In the early phases of designing Carbonline
Wheels implemented finite element modeling (FEA)
and full vehicle dynamic modeling, Carbonline
uses this technology specially to tailor
for high performance applications. Here is a view
of one of our carbon fiber wheels in an outspoken purple.
AMERICAN MUSCLE
In the early phases of designing Carbonline
Wheels, CLW bolted on some EPIC's for testing.
The Mustang made well over 600 hp at the rear wheels.
Not only did the mustang make more power but
the ride quality was improved also.
FINISH FIRST
Carbonline Wheels 20" x 8.5" wheel weighs
in at a lean 14 lbs. which makes it "the true lightest" 20" wheel in the world! As shown in stealth black,
another customizable option avaliable from
Carbonline Wheels LLC.
NO COMPARISON
Advanced composites when processed correctly,
have exceptionally high mechanical property values.
Compared to any other known materials out there,
you can expect carbon fiber to have at a minimum
of 5 times greater mechanical values.
Here is one of Carbonline's carbon fiber wheels
shown in a vibrant candy orange.
NO COMMENT
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words
VISUALLY STUNNING
Carbonline Wheels LLC. practices ISO-9001
guidelines and specifications. Special attention to detail is strictly practiced on every Carbonline wheel.
As you can clearly see in this view of our candy
blue carbon fiber wheel.
THE PERFECT FIT
Carbonline Wheels on a stealth black GTR
This awesome performance car was
reported to have made a
Mind-blowing 115 more horsepower on the Dyno.
GOING GREEN
Not only do Carbonline wheels look visually stunning
and add huge amounts of added horsepower, they also improve your fuel economy, due to the
unsprung weight and weight reduction of rotating
mass. Shown in this view is Carbonline Wheels
eco-friendly candy green carbon fiber wheel.
- Materials -
Carbon Fiber , Advanced Composite Explained.
Carbon fiber can be described as very thin, strong fibres and is generally used to reinforce composite materials, particularly the category of materials known as carbon fibre or graphite reinforced polymers. It is also known as reinforced plastic or carbon fibre composites. As a compound, it's admired for being stronger and lighter than fiberglass. It is of much importance to designers and engineers due to its sturdiness. It's a kind of material that is lighter than aluminum and stronger than steel. It's amazing.
Carbon Fiber is composed of carbon atoms that are bonded together to form a long chain. These carbon fibers are extremely stiff, strong, light and are the top choice for many processes to create excellent building materials. Carbon Fibre material comes in a wide variety of raw building blocks such as yarns, weaves, uni-directional, braids and many others which are used to manufacture advanced composite products.
Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) is an extremely strong and lightweight material that is gaining increasing popularity with engineers and manufacturers. In tension strength, for a given weight of material, it's at least 4.5 times stronger and stiffer than any steel, aluminum or titanium in the industry. Carbon fibres are very thin strands of carbon which are much thinner even than a human hair. Individual fibers are corralled together in what is known as a carbon fiber towline.
A towline can have between 1,000 and 50,000 individual fibers in the bunch. This towline material is then woven and/or stitched together to become different carbon fiber woven cloth materials. The towline can also be used by itself (filament winding) to manufacture certain parts. The step between these dry towlines, fabric woven cloth materials and a finished solid material is the introduction and curing of a resin to turn the carbon fiber into a CFRP.
The Benefits Of Carbon Fiber , Advanced Composites.
These specific properties of a CFRP are a direct comparison to those of popular high performance metals in the figures chart below.
- High stiffness to weight ratio
- High strength
- Corrosion resistant
- Fatigue resistant
- Energy Absorption on Impact
- Tailored material properties
Generally a carbon fiber and/or advanced composite part design has its own unique schedule of layers and orientations of carbon fibers to form the desired ratio of stiffness, weight, and strength. These are just some of the highlight benefits of the futuristic material known as carbon fiber and/or advanced composites. Another outstanding benefit to carbon fiber is it's thermal soak properties. In other mediums, such as metals, the choices are much more limited. With carbon fiber advanced composites, they are limitless. As we keep moving forward with reseach and development, we are finding that by hybriding other reinforcement materials along with other resin base systems there are no limits to achieving the perfect manufacturing materials.
The advantages of carbon fiber materials are significant. First of all, carbon fibers are very light fibers which results in lightweight structures. Furthermore, one can chose between stiff or strong fibers depending on the composite part being produced and the type of carbon fiber material required. The exceptional impact properties make carbon fiber advantageous in various industry segments. During an impact, carbon fibers disintegrates (metal instead would simply deform) which can make it is a very efficient energy dissipation mechanism. Although carbon fiber is fairly expensive compared to other more common fibers like fiberglass, the price is steadily decreasing due to the progress of production technology. Another major advantage is that it's thermal expansion is basically zero. An example would be that metal expands when heated while carbon fiber remains in its basic form. For specific projects where thermal stability is required, carbon fiber can be a tremendous benefit. The material can resist very high temperatures (1000 Celsius). Carbon fiber composite structures do not suffer any fatigue issues if designed and engineered properly. Finally, carbon fiber is permeable to X-ray and does not corrode, which is a huge issue with metals
Fatigue
When it comes to aluminum and other metal products, usually these products are not going to fail because of a single catastrophic load due to the property values of aluminum or metals. But because of small, repeated stresses each stress load cycle on an aluminum or metal product, however small, puts that material that much closer to a fatigue failure status. Designers and engineers realize these limitations and therefore over build their products for a lifetime of use. When properly designed and manufactured carbon fiber , advanced composite materials have an almost infinite fatigue life. These property values mean that designers and engineers now no longer have to "over build" parts to deal with fatigue as is done with aluminum components leading to even lighter products. Carbonline Wheels practice all of the necessary steps to assure that we build a perfect carbon fiber wheel by performing Finite Elemente Analysis (FEA) for reassurance the integrity of carbon fiber orientation lay-up schedules. CLW also performs White Light Scanning for actual physical measurement data.
Corrosion
Metals are highly affected and degrade due to corrosion. Another advantage of carbon fiber reinforcement materials is that it is not affected by corrosion which is why Carbonline Wheels llc.are not subject to the adverse affects of corrosion like metals are. The fact that they do not degrade via these mechanisms means that designers and engineers do not have to account for degradation caused by corrosion throughout the products life. This again provides further opportunities for weight saving and efficiency gains in vehicles and reduced through life costs. When manufactured with the appropriate resin systems, carbon fiber is one of the most corrosion-resistant materials known.