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ripstop nylon made of ripstop nylon
ripstop nylon is actually a particular weave. Instead of thread, use microfibers already knitted to be ripstop pattern, then make them into the filament that the macro sized ripstop fabric is made from | |
While describing a better bag I remembered making
ripstop
nylon from ripstop nylon.
Ripstop nylon is actually a particular weave. Instead of
thread, use microfibers already knitted to be ripstop
pattern,
then make them into the filament that the macro sized
ripstop fabric is made from.
Pondering
monofilaments It seems like there might be
some way of making monofilament stronger, like having
a laser making a helical swirl of toughened material at
the near surface interior. The filament would then be
more like a chinese fingertrap puzzle and could have
different response to stretching.
Another possibility could be using lasers to make an I-
beam polymerization central to the filament.
It might work.
just perhaps putting little rachet shapes on the surface
would cause the monofilaments to slide against each
other less, improving dimensional stability and limiting
the spread of microtears.
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Ripstop nylon is actually a particular weave. Instead of thread, use microfibers already knitted to be ripstop pattern, then make them into the filament that the macro sized ripstop fabric is made from. |
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Ripstop nylon is actually a particular weave. Instead of thread, use microfibers already knitted to be ripstop pattern, then make them into the filament that the macro sized ripstop fabric is made from. |
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Sadly, no. The fracture mechanics (so to speak) of ripstop nylon are very different at the level of threads and of the material as a whole. |
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Monofilament nylon is actually a fairly amazing structure in an of itself, and it does exactly the job it's meant to do, at the thread level. The ripstop weave works by an entirely different, but equally brilliant mechanism. |
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It seems like there might be some way of making
monofilament stronger, like having a laser making a helical
swirl of toughened material at the near surface interior.
The filament would then be more like a chinese fingertrap
puzzle and could have different response to stretching.
Another possibility could be using lasers to make an I-beam
polymerization central to the filament. |
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Nylon is already cleverer than that. |
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If you stacked and wove together many layers of ripstop, with a few
thicker layers separating the thinner ones, could you make a kind of
three-dimensional ripstop material, which would be well suited to
manufacturing four-dimensional hot air balloons? |
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Edit: I suppose one problem is that you'd need to weave in additional
thicker ripstop threads at right angles to the sheets. |
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So to summarize the comments, ripstop nylon is NOT ripstop
nylon, nor is it made of it. |
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