Fiberglass reinforced plastic is a composite material that has developed rapidly over the past fifty years. 70% of the output of glass fiber is used to manufacture FRP. FRP is hard and much lighter than steel. Jet airplanes use it for fuel tanks and pipes, can reduce the weight of the aircraft. Astronauts on the moon
FRP tanks
, they are carrying miniature oxygen cylinders, also made of fiberglass. Fiberglass reinforced plastic is easy to process, does not rust and does not rot, does not need to be painted. Our country has widely used FRP to manufacture a variety of small motorboats, lifeboats, yachts, as well as automobile manufacturing, etc., saving a lot of steel. As FRP is a composite material, its performance is very wide range of adaptability, so its market development prospects are very broad. According to the relevant statistics, at present, the development of the world's fiberglass reinforced plastic product categories have reached about 40,000 kinds. Although countries are based on their own economic development, the development of the direction of each focus, but basically have been involved in various industrial sectors. China's FRP industry after more than forty years of development, has also been in the national economy in all areas of successful applications, in the economic construction has played an important role. The main application fields of FRP are roughly summarized as follows: Construction industry: cooling tower, FRP windows and doors New, building structures, enclosure structures, indoor equipment and decorative parts, FRP flat plate, waveform tile, decorative panels, sanitary ware and the whole bathroom, sauna, surfing bathroom, building construction templates, storage building, as well as solar energy utilization devices and so on. Chemical industry: corrosion-resistant pipes, tanks and storage tanks, corrosion-resistant pumps and their accessories, corrosion-resistant valves, grills, ventilation facilities, and sewage and wastewater treatment equipment and its accessories and so on. Automobile and railroad transportation industry: automobile shells and other components, all-plastic microcars, large bus body shells, doors, interior panels, main columns, floors, floor, floor beams, bumpers, instrument panels, small buses and vans, as well as fire tanker trucks, refrigerated trucks, tractor cabs and machine hoods, etc.; in the railroad transportation, there are train window frames, the car top of the curved plate, the roof tanks, the floor of the toilets, the door of the baggage car, the roof Ventilator, refrigerated car doors, water storage tanks, and some railroad communication facilities, etc.; in highway construction, there are traffic signs, road signs, piers, highway guardrail and so on. Boats and water transportation industry: inland waterway passenger and cargo ships, fishing boats, hovercraft, all kinds of yachts, racing boats, high-speed boats, lifeboats, traffic boats, as well as glass fiber reinforced plastic navigational markers, floating drums and mooring floats and so on. Electrical industry and communication engineering: there are arc extinguishing equipment, cable protection tube, generator stator coil and support ring and cone shell, insulating tube, insulating rod, motor protection ring, high-voltage insulators, standard capacitor shell, motor cooling casing, generator windshield and other strong power equipment; distribution box and distribution panel, insulated shaft, fiberglass cover, and other electrical equipment; printed circuit boards, antennae, radomes and other electronic engineering applications. In recent years, with the development of science and technology, as well as the improvement of people's living standard, many civil FRP products have been developed in large quantities, for example, many city sculptures, arts and crafts modeling, fast food tables and chairs, motorcycle parts, FRP flower pots, helmets, high-level amusement equipment, household appliances shells and so on, all of which are successfully applied in large quantities. Fiberglass reinforced plastic tiles, also known as transparent tiles, can be made. It is a lighting material used in conjunction with steel structure, which is mainly composed of high-performance film, reinforced polyester and fiberglass, of which the film should play a good role in anti-ultraviolet radiation and anti-static, anti-ultraviolet radiation is to protect the polyester of FRP light panels do not yellowing and aging, premature loss of light transmittance characteristics. Anti-static is to ensure that the surface of the dust is easily washed away by rain or blown away by the wind, to maintain a clean and beautiful surface. Because of its stable quality, durability, popular with customers, the product can be widely used in industrial/commercial/civil construction amount of roof and wall The film industry is used to make props, which is convenient, fast and cost-saving． It can imitate many kinds of material effects. It is welcomed by people. Chemical plants also use phenolic resin FRP instead of stainless steel to do a variety of corrosion-resistant equipment, greatly extending the life of the equipment. Fiberglass reinforced plastic is non-magnetic, does not block the passage of electromagnetic waves. Use it to do the missile radome, as if the missile put on a pair of protective glasses, not only does not block the radar "line of sight", but also play a protective role. Now, many missiles and ground radar station radomes are made of fiberglass. Into the 21st century, according to the good wave-transparent fiberglass, this aspect of the performance, with the widespread popularity of cell phone communications, fiberglass is widely used in the manufacture of 2G and 3G antenna cover, fiberglass with its good formability, the appearance of the beautification can be played a very good role in beautifying the community, the products in this area are square column line cover, simulation of the stone, field application of the beautification of the tree and so on, fiberglass is also used to improve the water of the sports. The water of sports almost made a great contribution. Since the pole vault this sport, athletes use wooden pole to create the highest record is 3.05 meters. Later, bamboo poles were used. By 1942, the record was raised to 4.77 meters. The advantage of the bamboo pole is light and flexible, shortcomings is the lower end of the thick and thin upper end, and then to improve the record is very difficult, so people use aluminum alloy pole instead of bamboo pole, it is light and solid, but not flexible enough. In this way, from 1942 to 1957, fifteen years, the highest pole vault record only improved 1 cm. But since the emergence of the new fiberglass pole, because it is light and rich in elasticity, the record soared, today's pole vault record has exceeded the 6-meter mark. In today's world, fiberglass reinforced plastic is also used in a large number of people's lives, people affectionately called it "fiberglass", because of some of its special varieties can still retain many of the advantages of glass, such as transparency, so people use it as a window glass, not only to block the ultraviolet rays of the sun, but also to make the living room bright. People also use it to make a variety of durable daily necessities. Such as bath, kitchen utensils, washing utensils.