Composite Materials

Composite Materials

Merit Badge Workbook

This workbook can help you but you still need to read the merit badge pamphlet. This Workbook can help you organize your thoughts as you prepare to meet with your merit badge counselor.

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and to make notes for discussing the item with your counselor, not for providing full and complete answers. If a requirement says that you must take an action using words such as "discuss", "show", "tell", "explain", "demonstrate", "identify", etc, that is what you must do. Merit Badge Counselors may not require the use of this or any similar workbooks.

No one may add or subtract from the official requirements found in Boy Scout Requirements (Pub. 33216 ? SKU 621535). The requirements were last issued or revised in 2014 ? This workbook was updated in October 2016.

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1. Do the following: a. Explain to your counselor the most likely hazards you may encounter while working with composite materials and what you should do to anticipate, mitigate and prevent, and respond to these hazards.

Describe the appropriate safety gear and clothing that should be used when working with composite materials.

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Composite Materials

Scout's Name: ________________________

b. Explain the precautions that must be taken when handling, storing, and disposing of resins, reinforcements, and other materials used in composites. Include in your discussion the importance of health, safety, and environmental responsibility and awareness.

c. Describe what a material safety data sheet (MSDS) is and tell why it is used.

2. Do the following: a. Explain what are composite materials.

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Composite Materials Include a brief history of composites and how they have developed.

Scout's Name: ________________________

b. Compare the similarities and differences between composites and wood, aluminum, copper, and steel. Explain the physical, electrical, mechanical, corrosive, flammability, cost, and other such properties. For each of these raw materials, give one example of how it can be shaped and used for a specific application. Composites Physical properties:

Electrical properties:

Mechanical properties:

Corrosive properties:

Flammability:

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Composite Materials Cost:

Other properties.

How can it be shaped and used for a specific application.

Scout's Name: ________________________

Wood Physical properties: Electrical properties: Mechanical properties: Corrosive properties:

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Composite Materials Flammability:

Cost:

Other properties.

How can it be shaped and used for a specific application.

Scout's Name: ________________________

Aluminum Physical properties: Electrical properties: Mechanical properties:

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