STEM Handbook – Composites

Composite Basics

Background Information and Introductory Labs and Demonstrations

• Some Characteristics of an Ideal Material (pdf)

• Build a Better Hockey Puck Lab – from Strange Matter Website (pdf)

• Making the Strongest Beam and Young’s Modulus (pdf)

• Backpack Survivability Index of Portable Snacks by Peg Jones (pdf)

• Scientific Principles of Composites – Notes from the MAST Composite Module (pdf)

More Labs and Projects

• Concrete Lab by Len Booth (pdf)

Articles

• *ChemMatters – “Fabric of Steel” – Kevlar (pdf)

• *ChemMatters – “On Board with Epoxy” (pdf)

Glossary

• MAST Glossary – Composites (pdf)

*Reprinted with permission from the ACS ChemMatters at www.acs.org/chemmatters, American Chemical Society. Not to be included as part of a larger publication, and not to be used for commercial purposes.