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2008-06-16 Composite Materials - Field erected tank for Fire fighting use: Guillermo, I don't understand the question fully. What size is the tank and the loads required. If it is just water, there is only a weight load, if it is pressurized, then this is much higher loading...
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2008-06-14 Composite Materials - 1/4 tempered glass: Dear Robert, No Problem, the glass shelf calculator indicates this can hold over 100 lbs. I would doubt the little clips could take it though. Might want to consider metal ones, available at most hardware...
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2008-06-06 Composite Materials - DIY Composite PEEK molding: Dear John, Prototyping via injection molded parts from PEEK is difficult and inherently fraught with difficulties. It is available as billet and easily machined. McMaster-Carr and others have it available...
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2008-06-06 Composite Materials - about brand names of composite materials: Dear Santhosh, I am not familiar with Piezoelectric composites or Smart Structures and they do not have wide use in composite applications. There is a lot of R&D and playing around but last I heard...
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2008-06-05 Composite Materials - bowing in phenolic composites: Hi Vinoth, Phenolic, must need fire resistance? I will assume then that you are heating this up to cure the phenolic instead of going with a catalized system as The phenol-formaldihyde only needs heat...
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