“Nanostitches” enable lighter and tougher composite materials

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But can it shred a cargo ship?

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  • kambusha@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the Panama canal?

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Preferably

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  • b3an@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s something of a three body problem I hear.

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• Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember somebody was doing 3D-woven composites, possibly for spacecraft, some years ago…

  This is essentially the same idea, but with nanotubes.

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  This suggests that weaving reinforcement tow through the layers of the layup would be structurally-significant, if it were done densely-in-pattern, enough…

  In aerospace, maybe it’d be structurally significant ( aircraft have, iirc, only a 10% margin in structural-strength, though that may be just the aluminum semi-monocoque builds )

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• DigitalNirvana@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How long before this is used in bicycle frames?

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