By Ericka Marsh


Look at your surroundings. Observe them one by one very carefully. Take time to scrutinize the things around you. Identify them one by one. If you see buildings, survey its structure. Surely, all the little details of how it is built is a big question mark in your mind. How architects designed them. How amazing that engineers made it possible to become a reality. There are a lot of fascinating facts that you are yet to know.

In the beginning of the construction, there are certain needed foundations to be placed. Specific measures are required to meet the quality of it. Every building needs a framework. A Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer, GFRP reinforcement, is part of its brace. This is to strengthen superstructure components of big projects. It is made up of composite materials.

It is known to be lightweight and useful. It is based on majorly on carbon fiber. It is resilient and affordable. Its amazing solid quality outmatch those that of many metals. It is simple to mold.

This was accidentally discovered by Owens Games Slayter. He unintentionally directed a jet compressed with air at stream of molten glass. Then, it began to produce fibers. That is where it started to become the fiber glass. It was his amazing discovery that he even called the process of manufacturing fiberglass as pultrusion.

In pultrusion, many minerals were exposed to hot furnace to form the fiberglass. It is a composite material made of polymer matrix reinforced with fibers. It is very light, durable, rust resistant and sturdy. They are commonly used in aerospace, automotive, marine, construction and many others. The manufacture of this is done in two ways. These ways differ in some way. Take a look at their difference.

Two Dimensional Fibre Reinforced Polymer. It is characterized by the lamination of a structure wherein fibers are aligned along the x and y direction only. The z direction is excluded. Cost and labor is highly affected.

Three Dimensional Fiber Reinforced Polymer. An incorporation of fibers are aligning in all directions from x, y and z. This decreases the cost and labor.

There are also several ways of textile processing are done in weaving, knitting, braiding and stitching. However, GFRPs have its own advantages and limitations. Though they allow the alignment of the glass fibers of thermoplastics that helps increase heat resistance and strength, it is also its limitation. It always have a weak spot that is where laborers put the hinges. And it is not a guarantee that having a its content is strong enough to hold any weight because it always depend on the amount of components being mixed during the process of it.

Majority of the construction firms used fiberglass to reinforce the durability of the framework of the foundation of the structure. Even if this weakness had been known to the employees assigned in construction sites, they still use it most of the time. This had given more to complete the beauty of the superstructures and their dependability. It is also used in other places like at household, offices, etc. You can even purchase them at hardware stores near your place. It is sufficient to appreciate the tiny details we just learned. They progress the condition of our structure.




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