Talk:Fibre-reinforced plastic
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This article seems to be mainly about fiber-reinforced plastic used in structures. I'm more looking for information (or adding information) about fiber (and other fillers such as minerals, lubricants, etc.) filled plastics used in injection molding processes. Should that be added here or should a new article be created? Are they differentiated because this is "reinforced" plastic and injection molded plastics are "filled"? Thanks for the help! Wizard191 (talk) 17:56, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
Title
The term "plastic" is vague and seems misleading in this context. Wouldn't the title "Fiber Reinforced Polymer" be more appropriate. "Plastic" has a flexible connotation. Even though the resins used are "plastic" during the manufacturing process, they are rigid structures when complete. The references in this article are mostly about rigid composite structures. Also, can we remove the hyphen "-" in the title? Here in the US, we get the FRP from separate words; Fiber Reinforced Plastic (and it looks better in the title to have caps.). (even if the Brits want to keep the "fibre" spelling) SunKider (talk) 20:26, 9 January 2013 (UTC)m
I agree with both Wizard191 and SunKinder. As written, this article should mention nylon, which is incredibly common in producing high performance consumer products (with 30% glass reinforcement). Piojo (talk) 15:33, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
Does the British spelling of fiber as fibre matter? The article has both spellings.Frmorrison (talk) 19:13, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
- I changed it so that that its consistent. Wizard191 (talk) 17:37, 27 January 2011 (UTC)