The opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games was held perfectly on February 4, and one of the important characters, the "Flying Ribbon" torch, became the focus again.
Take you to see the "big" secret in the "small" torch!
The overall appearance of "Flying Ribbon" echoes the shape of the main torch tower at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The torch "bottoms out" with auspicious cloud patterns, and gradually transits from auspicious cloud patterns to paper-cut style snowflake patterns from bottom to top, rotating and rising like ribbons.
Its main material is carbon fiber. The first evaluation given by the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee is that it is light, firm and unbreakable. Especially in winter, when the torch relay is held in cold weather, traditional metal materials have a bad handle. Composite materials can effectively solve this problem to avoid cold touch.
The mass of carbon fiber is only about 1/4 of that of steel, but its strength is 7~9 times.
The torch made of carbon fiber composite has obvious advantages; But there are also drawbacks.
First of all, the surface of carbon fiber composite is a porous structure, which must be filled with coating to achieve a smooth appearance. This requires good coating hiding power - high solid content, good fullness, and guaranteed film thickness for single coating. Secondly, carbon fiber is still unstable under the high temperature of 1000-1200℃ hydrogen, and the problem of high temperature resistance must be solved through coating. Under the ultra-high temperature hydrogen combustion, the coating shall be free of smoke, cracking, pulverization, etc.
According to the working condition requirements of the torch "Flying Ribbon", Quark New Material has carried out targeted research and development and improvement based on flexible ceramic coatings, providing a comprehensive technical solution for improving the temperature resistance of carbon fiber substrate while ensuring the concealer force.
Decryption of Quark flexible ceramic coatings:
After eight years of research and development by Quark, the flexible ceramic coatings is an inorganic high solid coating with excellent comprehensive properties such as high temperature resistance, pollution resistance, corrosion resistance and weather resistance. QUV＞5000hrs, salt spray test＞3000hrs, A1 incombustible. It is widely used in industrial heavy corrosion protection, ships, new energy and other fields.
It is cured at room temperature and has excellent construction tolerance, providing convenient construction conditions for "Flying Ribbon" spraying.
Quark has a perfect coating design system, which can be adjusted according to the working conditions to provide customized products for customers.
For each customer and each subdivided field, Quark R&D Center conducts review, simulation and test according to customer standards, and finally develops the most appropriate solution.
This application is in the "Flying Ribbon" project of the torch of the 2022 Winter Olympics - the silver paint "growth" means growth, represents environmental protection, and practices the concept of "green Winter Olympics". It also confirms the innovative R&D capability of Quark and the excellent comprehensive performance of products.
Quark Quality Winter Olympic standards
