It's interesting to note that some of the new-generation football helmets have carbon-Kevlar shells. Clearly these are designed to sustain...
I guess, theoretically at least, at the point of impact the carbon fibers on the outside of the laminate are in compression, while the Kevlar...
Some canoe/kayak builders use a hybrid layup schedule with carbon fiber on the outside and Kevlar backing it up, so to speak, on the inside. This...
You strip over temporary molds, sheath and finish the outside of the hull, then remove the molds and sheath the inside like laying up a fiberglass...
I looked at the Gougeon Brothers book again and saw the test panel chart done for relatively thin strip-composite laminations (p. 275). I remember...
I did see that the specific moduli—i.e., elasticity modulus divided by density—for E-glass and Douglas Fir are much closer together than their...
The biaxial is 17 oz +45/-45, two separate layers of 8.5 oz uni-directional stitched together. The boat will be a 38+/- ft medium displacement...
Hello, I’ve been a longtime reader of this forum, but this may be my first post. My question is how a wooden strip-plank hull with both...
