Customizable Design 3K Carbon Fiber Hollow Tube - Electromagnetic Transparency

A carbon fiber hollow tube is a structural component made primarily of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) material. It's constructed in a tubular shape with a hollow center, offering a high strength-to-weight ratio and excellent stiffness properties.

Pultruded round carbon fiber hollow tubes are created by pulling linearly oriented carbon fibers through a resin bath and then a series of heated tooling to create the specified inner and outer diameters of the tube. Carbon tubes are especially stiff longitudinally, due to the unidirectional orientation of the fibers. These tubes are stiff, lightweight composites that can be used in a variety of applications, including robotics, aerospace, industrial equipment, and more.

Here are some key features and applications of carbon fiber hollow tubes:

• Lightweight: Carbon fiber is known for its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, making hollow tubes from this material lightweight yet robust. This characteristic is particularly advantageous in applications where weight reduction is critical, such as aerospace, automotive, and sporting equipment.
• High Strength and Stiffness: Carbon fiber hollow tubes exhibit high tensile strength and stiffness, providing superior performance to traditional materials like steel or aluminum. This makes them ideal for applications requiring structural integrity and durability, such as in robotics, UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), and high-performance bicycles.
• Corrosion Resistance: Carbon fiber is inherently resistant to corrosion, which enhances the durability and longevity of carbon fiber hollow tubes. This property makes them suitable for use in harsh environments where corrosion can degrade conventional materials over time, such as marine or chemical processing industries.
• Customizable Design: Manufacturers can tailor the design and properties of carbon fiber hollow tubes to meet specific application requirements by adjusting factors such as fiber orientation, resin matrix, and tube geometry.

This versatility allows for the creation of optimized structures with desired mechanical characteristics.

• Electromagnetic Transparency: Carbon fiber is non-conductive and exhibits electromagnetic transparency, making carbon fiber hollow tubes suitable for applications where electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding or radio frequency (RF) transparency is necessary, such as in aerospace and telecommunications.
• Cost Considerations: While carbon fiber hollow tubes offer excellent performance characteristics, they can be relatively expensive compared to traditional materials like steel or aluminum. However, the benefits in terms of weight savings, durability, and performance often justify the higher upfront cost in many applications.

Overall, carbon fiber hollow tubes are versatile structural components with a wide range of applications across industries where lightweight, high-strength, and corrosion-resistant materials are required.

Whether your project is big or small, we are bound to have carbon fiber tubes that suit your needs. As a bonus, we can generally ship within one business day on most products listed in our store. We can also cut your tubes to specific lengths with various tolerances, and for many carbon tubes, we offer sanding services. So whether it's aesthetic variations or superb mechanical properties, we've got the carbon fiber tubes for you!

We offer carbon fiber tubing in a variety of stock outer diameters from .125” to .750”. All lengths listed are +/- 0.062″ and all diameters listed are within +/- 0.005″. We can custom cut your order to a specific length and we’d be happy to speak with you about large, custom orders or machining.

Our Service:

1. It ensures a year of quality assurance and 24-hour online customer service.
2. Protection of your sales area, ideas of design, and all your private information.
3. Request for samples is accepted.
4. Drilling and slotting are accepted.
5. We guarantee the products to be manufactured with the finest materials and mature techniques.
All tubes can be repaired at no charge if returned to us, postage prepaid, within one year.