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Originally Posted by zx10guy
In college, I took a composites class where we went through the process of laying up an I beam type structure that was going to placed under a bending moment. It was a very enlightening experience laying down the carbon fiber sheets, pouring on the epoxy resin, and then vacuum bagging the part placed in an autoclave to cure it.
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I believe that composite pressure vessels and pipes/tubes are wound over a mandrel from a long fiber strand before bagging and baking, but don't quote me on this since I'm not 100% positive.....