The navigator© wrote:


So you are saying it's Hookian until failure ?
If you look at a mast, CFRP has far more flex than Al before failure.

Nope, sorry, wrong again. Aluminum can bend & stretch a lot further before breaking than
carbon fiber can. You either must be thinking of load cycles to fatigue, or else you're
just making up malarkey to sound impressive.




Carbon fiber also requires an order
of magnitude (or thereabouts) greater skill & preparation & tooling to make good
secondary bonds.

The bond in all FRP is plastic to plastic. There is no difference
whatsoever in that regarrd for CFRP.

You're saying that one can wet out and lay up carbon fiber just like fiberglass?

Try it and see.



Where do you get these ideas Doug?

Well, I don't just make them up out of thin air like you apparently do.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King