Carbo-Link is a leading Swiss advanced engineering solutions company. It has been founded by interdisciplinary scientists who have developed an innovative technique for the production of lightweight composite tension members with excellent fatigue resistance which are lighter and have a smaller diameter than other available systems for an equivalent stiffness.<\/p>\n
The company was looking for a prepreg system for carbon fibre pendent cables to replace steel rods on the Liebherr LR1300 series crawler crane. Carbo-Link chose the Araldite\u00ae XB3515 \/ Aradur\u00ae 5021 system because of its high strength and fracture toughness for the anchoring rods made from their unique carbon fibre polymer matrix system. <\/p>\n
The crane which is in operation across the world in territories as diverse as North America, Europe and the Middle East has a nominal lifting capacity of 300 tons. The prepreg system chosen had to able to withstand heavy loads and abuse situations and maintain its properties at very high temperatures in the sun.<\/p>\n
Araldite\u00ae XB3515, a hot melt epoxy resin and Aradur\u00ae 5021, a hardener based on polyamines is a system which overall provides excellent mechanical properties (strength and stiffness) combined with easy handling behaviour. These properties make it extremely well suited for use on the Liebherr crawler crane in a range of different environments across the world.<\/p>\n
“We selected the Araldite\u00ae XB3515 \/ Aradur\u00ae 5021 system because of its low build up of exothermal temperature during the curing phase – essential because of the size of the cross sections which must be large in order to withstand the high tensile forces,” said Dr Andreas Winistoerfer, CEO, Carbo-Link. “The Araldite\u00ae prepreg system has helped us to sell lightweight tension cables globally to the construction industry as well as in sailing markets for use on high tech composite yacht rigging.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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