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Re: Failure modes
By:Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks
Date: 5/31/2016, 11:07 am
In Response To: Re: Failure modes *PIC* (JohnAbercrombie)

There may be a better name for the failure mode that I don't know but if you push the shell of the kayak against a rock, the skin will bend around that rock and the rock will compress the exterior glass into the wood core. The wood core fails in compression (dented), permitting the outer skin to buckle inward, transferring the load to the interior glass which then may break in tension.

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Strip: Fiberglassing the seam *PIC*
Fred Brown -- 5/29/2016, 6:02 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Rod Tait -- 5/29/2016, 9:07 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Fred Brown -- 5/29/2016, 10:07 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
JohnAbercrombie -- 5/29/2016, 11:10 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Fred Brown -- 5/30/2016, 6:46 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam - bias cut is al
Ian Johnson -- 6/1/2016, 7:46 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam - bias cut is al
Bill Hamm -- 6/2/2016, 12:49 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam - bias cut is al
ian johnson -- 6/2/2016, 6:22 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam - bias cut is al
Sam McFadden -- 6/2/2016, 8:23 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam - bias cut is al
Bill Hamm -- 6/3/2016, 7:37 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam - bias cut is al
Ian johnson -- 6/5/2016, 5:46 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Brian Nystrom -- 5/30/2016, 4:02 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/30/2016, 4:32 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Marc Donnelly -- 5/29/2016, 10:18 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Craig -- 5/30/2016, 6:06 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Fred Brown -- 5/30/2016, 6:51 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Bill Hamm -- 5/31/2016, 12:46 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/30/2016, 10:19 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
JohnAbercrombie -- 5/30/2016, 11:43 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/30/2016, 12:07 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
JohnAbercrombie -- 5/30/2016, 12:17 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/30/2016, 1:45 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
JohnAbercrombie -- 5/30/2016, 2:09 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
JohnAbercrombie -- 5/30/2016, 2:16 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/30/2016, 2:27 pm
Failure modes
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/30/2016, 4:04 pm
Re: Failure modes
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/30/2016, 5:08 pm
Re: Failure modes
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/30/2016, 7:27 pm
Re: Failure modes *PIC*
JohnAbercrombie -- 5/30/2016, 9:16 pm
Re: Failure modes
Bill Hamm -- 5/31/2016, 12:54 am
Re: Failure modes
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/31/2016, 11:07 am
Re: Failure modes
Marc Upchurch -- 5/31/2016, 12:14 pm
West System failure tests for strips
Mike Bielski -- 5/31/2016, 11:35 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Sam McFadden -- 5/31/2016, 2:06 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Marc Upchurch -- 5/31/2016, 3:38 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 5/31/2016, 4:26 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Sam McFadden -- 5/31/2016, 5:01 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Bill Hamm -- 6/1/2016, 12:42 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Bill Hamm -- 5/31/2016, 12:50 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Fred Brown -- 5/30/2016, 11:59 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Fred Brown -- 5/30/2016, 7:35 pm
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 5/31/2016, 3:18 am
Re: Strip: Fiberglassing the seam
Bill Hamm -- 6/1/2016, 12:45 am