Also fukkit

intermediate modulus carbon fiber is 800-1000 ksi.

1 psi is 6895 newtons per square meter. 1 ksi is 6,895,000 newtons per square meter. is 689 newtons per square cm. Is 155lb per square cm. Yield strength of mild steel is around 50 ksi, so a 1 square cm bar of mild steel is gonna yield at a little under 8,000 lbs. 1 square cm of aligned carbon fiber is gonna be able to pick up a fully-loaded M1A1 Abrams tank. You shouldn't tho.

"One. Hundred MILLION kilograms" is 981 meganewtons. To support that, at yield, with carbon fiber is 0.2 square meters, or a round rod half a meter in diameter. Solid. No flaws. At yield. Where its elongation is 1.75% so your lawn dart is gonna be between 50 and 80cm closer to the inside of your can at the end of your process than at the beginning.

I'm trained that carbon fiber actually kinda sucks more than you think from an engineering standpoint because you have to build it into a mat to do anything useful with it, and then you can't test it, but fuckin' hell the shit's tough in tension. It's just those places where it isn't in tension that you're in a world of hurt.

Hmm. I got some carbon fiber printer filament. Maybe I should look into doing something with it.