Why choose FRP materials for large water villages for outdoor water park equipment?
As cooler weather approaches, water parks begin to close for the season. This means the water park business winds down, and manufacturers start preparing for the next season. Investors are now gearing up for the construction of new water parks, aiming to open in time for next summer. Recently, some customers have asked why large outdoor water park kiosks use glass FRP materials. What are its advantages? The Guangzhou Lanchao Water Park equipment manufacturer will answer these questions:
I. Introduction to FRP
Large kiosk FRP is a fibre-reinforced plastic, commonly referred to as FRP composite materials. The full name is fibre-reinforced resin composite material, consisting of three parts: a partial gel coat, the matrix (unsaturated resin), and the reinforcing material-fibre cloth. The characteristics of large-scale water village FRP materials are high strength, light weight, corrosion resistance, flame retardant, ageing resistance, and high temperature resistance. Its safety and excitement make it the top choice for water park equipment.
2. Introduction to common varieties of FRP slides
1. Large-scale water village FRP slides
The gel coat used on the surface of the slideway is 0.5mm thick and is made of American Aslan company’s anti-ultraviolet product. The resin is Changzhou Huarun 8200#, and the product thickness is 6-8MM. The surface is smooth, the transition is seamless, the tensile strength of FRP is ≥78mpa, the bending strength is ≥147MPa, and the modulus of elasticity is ≥7300mpa.
2. Water house and water village
The water house, also called a kiosk or tree house, is carefully designed to provide a fun swimming experience. It combines various toys, turn buckets, water slides, and themed landscapes into one comprehensive water amusement facility.
3. Play in the water
Various cute cartoon shapes are used to produce water spray effects. There are also interactive amusement facilities that can be used as auxiliary equipment for the children’s pool in the water park. At the same time, it serves as a landscape decoration, adding a lively and interesting atmosphere. It is an essential water amusement equipment for water parks.
Three: The advantages of large-scale water village glass fibre reinforced plastic:
1. Lightweight and high strength: The relative density of glass fibre reinforced plastic is between 1.5 and 2.0, which is only 1/4 to 1/5 of that of carbon steel. However, the tensile strength is close to or even higher than that of carbon steel, and the specific strength high alloy steel can match. Therefore, it has excellent results in aviation, rockets, space vehicles, high-pressure vessels, and other products that need to reduce their own weight. Some epoxy FRP tensile, bending, and compression strength can reach more than 400Mpa.
2. Good corrosion resistance: FRP is a good corrosion-resistant material, and it has good resistance to atmosphere, water, and general concentrations of acids, alkalis, salts, and various oils and solvents. It has been applied to chemical anti-corrosion in every aspect, replacing carbon steel, stainless steel, wood, and non-ferrous metals.
3. Good electrical performance: It is an excellent insulating material, used to make insulators. It can still protect good dielectric properties under high frequency. It has good microwave permeability and has been widely used in radomes.
4. Good thermal performance: FRP has low thermal conductivity, 1.25~1.67kj/(m·h·k) at room temperature, which is only one-hundredth to one-thousandth of that of metal. It is an excellent thermal insulation material. Under instantaneous ultra-high warmth conditions, it is ideal for ablative thermal protection materials, protecting spacecraft from high-velocity gas erosion at two thousand degrees Celsius.
5. Good designability: Various structural products can be flexibly designed according to needs to meet the requirements of use, and the product can have good integrity. Materials can be fully selected to meet the performance of the product. For example, it can be designed to be corrosion-resistant, resistant to instantaneous high temperature, have particularly high strength in a certain direction, and have good dielectric properties.
6. Excellent manufacturability: The moulding process can be flexibly selected according to the shape, technical requirements, use, and quantity of the product. The process is simple, it can be formed at one time, and the economic effect is outstanding, especially for products with complex shapes and small quantities that are not easy to form, and its process superiority is more prominent.
Through the above information, investors can confidently use glass fibre reinforced plastic products. After all, water park equipment safety is crucial for millions of visitors. We use high-quality materials and meticulous craftsmanship to ensure no faults.