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S-glass

Posted By: Rick Lawler
Date: Wednesday, 10 May 2000, at 11:12 p.m.

I asked this on the kayak building board and haven't gotten a reply, so I'll try it here. Does anyone know how much stronger S-fiberglass is than standard E-glass? Would 4 ounce S-glass roughly correspond in tensile strength to 6 ounce E-glass? And what about Kevlar? It seems that Kevlar of a given weight/yard has similar tensile strength to standard E-glass of twice as much weight/yard (i.e. 5 oz Kevlar = 10 oz glass)- does this sound about right? Thanks.

Messages In This Thread

S-glass
Rick Lawler -- Wednesday, 10 May 2000, at 11:12 p.m.

Re: S-glass
lee -- Thursday, 11 May 2000, at 7:34 a.m.

Re: S-glass
Tapio Manner -- Thursday, 11 May 2000, at 1:37 p.m.

Re: composites
Doug Kuik -- Monday, 15 May 2000, at 5:27 p.m.

Re: S-glass
David Huang -- Tuesday, 20 August 2002, at 5:59 a.m.

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