Carbon Fiber Melt Spinning Animation

This animation shows the process of continuous fiber melt spinning at the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Fiber Technology Facility located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. To learn more about ORNL's carbon fiber research and development please visit www.ornl.gov/facility/cftf.
This animation used resources of the Compute and Data Environment for Science (CADES) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725

[@dieselphiend]

Carbon fiber? I thought it was just polyethylene? A precursor to carbon fiber, but by no means carbon fiber.

[@asfdasdful]

So what your saying is you built a giant spider?
Please add eight legs to the building to bring it all together.

[@danieljoonburtonhur5580]

Hi why do the fibers need to be wound around various rods before reaching the spinning spool?

[@mimiiichen]

which software did you use to make the animation?!!

[@miches_niche]

Hi Mimi, we used Blender, an open source 3D computer graphics software!