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Re: kevlar again
By:Mark Kanzler
Date: 8/18/1998, 1:07 pm
In Response To: Re: kevlar again (Pete Jung)

These days, in high tech applications, they stitch together the layers of cloth in composite layups to obtain even more strength. You could make a sort of "quilt" of fiberglass, which might make cloth handling easier later on, depending on how much care goes into the blanket.

> Don't confuse Kevlar 49 (used for lamination) with Kevlar 29
> (a fabric used for ballistic strength). They have MUCH different properties
> and purposes, and neither is a substiute for the other.

> Kevlar 49 is used with epoxy, vinylester, or polyester resins
> in traditional wet lay-up or vacuum-molding techniques for solid or
> sandwich constructions. It can produce laminates 10-30% lighter than
> equivalent all-fiberglass layups, but must be properly designed and
> fabricated to take advantages of it's unique properties.

> Kevlar 29 is a fabric, not designed to be used in a general-purpose
> laminate. It is sewn into multi-layer "laminates", but not
> impregnated. I don't profess to know or understand the physics of
> how it provides ballistic strength, but suffice it to say it works
> wonders in bulletproof vests, chainsaw "chaps", splinter
> and fragmentation containment "armor", etc. But, it is not
> intended as a lamination material, except as a replacemnt for mat
> to form solid cores in such things as boat hulls.

Messages In This Thread

kevlar again
Stephen Bumb -- 8/16/1998, 10:35 pm
Re: kevlar again
Pete Jung -- 8/18/1998, 11:43 am
Re: kevlar again
Mark Kanzler -- 8/18/1998, 1:07 pm
Re: more kevlar
Karl Kulp -- 8/17/1998, 10:39 am
Re: more kevlar
Mark Kanzler -- 8/17/1998, 11:55 am
Re: more kevlar
Martin Foil -- 8/17/1998, 4:52 pm
Re: more kevlar
Karl Kulp -- 8/17/1998, 6:45 pm