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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Glass Mat - now gel armour
t 'gel armour' recipe I found, based on Project Star.
> >I hope to make a coating stick for structural and wear/tear purposes
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> can you share more about this? Your recipe? Any web-links?
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Theirs, I will.
See end.
Frankly, their approach is ass-backwards.
Studying why we have delta bike frame as standard, when recumbent so much better. Answer is that we thought of this new bike idea as a horse-with-pedals. Instead of something entirely new. We use analogy to think - and often the new idea is not analogous.
I've studied every type of soft armour. They need a 'vision thing', to figure it out.
My plans have much to do with lil' bits of disparate matter types all holding hands.
They are still trying to figure out how to incorporate as much horse into the bicycle as possible.
Sigh.
So no, not gonna go into details. But I slay many birds with one stone.
I think I can squeeze at least one decimal digit out of their idea, at least.
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Ronald G. Egres, Jr. - Chemical Engineering Program - Ron received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Michigan State University and his M.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware while employed with W. L. Gore and Associates, Inc. His Ph.D. research involves investigating the rheological and microstructural properties of concentrated colloidal dispersions. Of particular interest is the behavior of these fluids when subjected to high stresses, which can result in a stress-induced shear thickening transition in fluid microstructure to a highly viscous, structured material. This research is motivated by the application of this energy dissipative, fluid-to-solid transition in the preparation of flexible, shear thickening fluid impregnated ballistic fabric composites. Proof of concept ballistic impact testing of shear thickening fluid-Kevlar fabric composites has demonstrated significant improvement over Kevlar fabric alone, allowing for the fabrication of p!
rotective body armor with improved flexibility and less bulk. Such flexible energy dissipative materials would not only have utility in military and law enforcement applications, but could also protect astronauts and actuated space craft components from the threat of micrometeoroid or orbiting debris impact during space exploration.
e-mail: egres@che.udel.edu