Plastic

Plastics are industrially made polymer-based materials. They are divided into three groups: plastics (solid), thermoplastics (heat formable), elastomers (elastic). Due to the chemical and technical possibilities (structure modifications, hardeners, plasticisers, etc. or admixtures as carbon fibres, glass fibres or metal fibres, etc.) the properties of plastics can be influenced in many ways to match the respective requirements. Two examples of fibre admixture are the probably mostly commonly used glass-fibre reinforced plastic GFRP / fibre reinforced plastic FRP as well as the carbon-fibre reinforced plastic CFRP.