JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Special Issue Composites for Sports, Health & Leisure - November 2020 - 16

TRENDS opportunities

Disney's Cars 2 vous mets aux commandes
de son héros Flash McQueen, ici en version
optimisée grâce à la fibre de carbone
©Disney Pixar

ly acclaimed. Its latest opus was
released in October 2017, and
it boasts more than 9 million
regular players. It was one of the
first car racing simulation games
that allowed players to fully customise their vehicles. Since its
very first editions, the game has
offered players the use of a dock
and the opportunity to improve
their hot rod's chassis, brake pads,
exhaust lines, and even to reduce
its overall weight. These are all
issues where composite materials shine yet again by guaranteeing sporting superiority through
technique. Carbon brake pads
will provide the ultimate control
of the vehicle when coming out of
a turn, a lighter chassis made from
composite materials will demand
a change in driving habits, and
those carbon fibre spoilers will
make for better road handling.

to name the most well-known,
Cars 2® will project you into fun
adaptation of the movie produced
by Disney Studios, where carbon
is synonym for excellence and
performance, and Need for Speed:
Carbon® heads in the same direction.
Flight simulation (for tourism,
war, transport) is among the most
cutting edge of them all, because
it receives broad support from a
community of players whose passion for flying admits no approximations, not even in their living
room. Here again, composite ma-

terials are given prominence and
make the craft that comprise them
among the most high-performing
in terms of energy consumption,
weight reduction and reliability.
The use of composite materials
in this type of motor sports simulation is a factor for performance
and excellence. Generally accessible in the final phases of the various games mentioned above, they
guarantee performance and excellence through vehicle design.
Composite materials, a constituent part of the action figure of
the future
Action and role-playing games
project players into the heart of
storylines and adventures that often require brawn and vigour. In
an adventure or a series of adventures that revolve around the primary quests, the most elaborate
games of this type can provide a
volume of content amounting to
several hundreds of hours. These
are also games in which the visual
representation of composite ma-

Beyond Gran Turismo®, there are
a number of games that make direct reference to composite materials with, it must be said, a clear
preference for carbon fibre. Just
Agent Jenson in action. The main playable
character in the Deus Ex series is fitted with
armour made of carbon nanotubes. He's also
holding a nanoceramic blades
© Eidos Montréal

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