Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] carbon fibre

[Dave Banks <noperiscope@yahoo.com>]

Carbon Fiber.  It's been used for years and is nothing new.  Spend some time traveling through the Internet before you make unnecessary mail for every one.  Why don't you guys go join a chat room some place.  Fiber glass works fine too. I know your excited about submarines and I understand but if you go to the archives of this site you'll find out all kinds of good stuff with out all this e mail.   

 

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Myles Hall <myles.h@sasktel.net> wrote:

Simon,

 

   My limited experience in this has shown me that steel is used because of the cost factor.  I guess dollar for dollar, it is the cheapest and easiest material to work with.  As far as weight is concerned, the subs NEED weight anyway so why not incorporate some of that into the pressure hull with steel ?   ...that's how it seems to me.

 

Myles.

----- Original Message -----

From: SIMON WALKDEN

To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org

Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:33 PM

Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] carbon fibre

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but why hasn't anybody made a pressure hull out of carbon fibre? Apparently it's 5 times as strong as steel, and good for reinforcing aluminium. Sounds like a logical, light-weight, low-cost alternative

-Simon

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