Experimental Foundations of the Use of Medium Base Content Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic Materials in Ship Building
Abstract
In China, the advancement of medium base glass fiber is somewhat faster and the products of medium base glass fiber occupy a significant portion. The strength of new type medium base glass fiber is lower than the base-free glass fiber. However, due to the application of reinforcing immersion agent, the knitting products and glass fibers made of this material behave satisfactorily in water resisting capability, even better than the resin-free, base-free glass fiber used originally in ship building. Currently, most ship building regulations require the use of E glass. We have shown the possibility of using the products of C glass fibers in ship building by large amount of experimental data. This should be a major contribution to the worldwide ship building industry and should create a prevailing environment in using indigenous glass fiber products in large quantities and for exporting products of glass steel. Due to the fact that the price of medium base glass fiber treated with reinforcing immersion agent is lower than that of the base-free product by 40%, the cost of ship body can be lowered by 15-20% correspondingly. In this manner, the applicability of glass metal steel ship can be widened.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 23, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA206562
Entities
People
- Jian D. Zhang
- Zhen Ju
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center