Cloth Lap

[Landlubber]

....some thoughts on carbon reinforcing....DO NOT randomly use carbon as the "reinforcing"...it MUST be engineered as such to do so......putting carbon around fastenings etc with the idea that it makes them stronger leads to destruction.......the ENTIRE load will be on the carbin as it is the strongest laminate, so if it is not strong enough to handle the entire load as engineered to do so, it WILL fail, and the plain glass under will not take the full load as it was not strong enough (remember you added the carbon to take up this load) and it will fail as the result. Take care when using composite reinforcings, as they are not simply chuck in some extra to make it stronger.

[tunnels]

With loadings it is best to disapate gradually the loads onto a bigger area as possible . An abrupt finish to a load baring member is dangerous and will cause breakage at the end point usually if it is not antisapated and something done about it . I am not in great favor of using dissimular materials that have completely differant properties like carbon and glass ! Carbon if it is to be the load carrying material needs to be held exstremely well within the glass layers and not simply sitting on or under layers of glass but held within good quality fabrics that can bond to and distrbute the stresses and tensions impossed . Its called engineering these days or just plain common sense we used to call it!!

[Jeff]

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