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Composite Material

What are composite materials?  

Composite materials are a material system which is made up of 2 or more physically distinct substances but its properties are entirely different from its constituent materials.  

Even wood is a naturally occurring composite material (cellulose fibre+lignin). Any composite material is made up of two kinds of substances. 

  1. Continuous matrix 

  2. Reinforcement  

Eg: concrete reinforcement with steel, epoxy resin reinforced with fibers, plastic molding reinforced with fillers