[TowerTalk] Mastrant Rope ? guy wire ?

[K8RI]

On 1/3/2012 10:05 PM, Grant Saviers wrote:
> I checked my reference text, "Handbook of Fibre Rope Technology" and
> Dyneema has excessive creep vs Kevlar.
>
> Dyneema SK60 creeps 0.63% at 15% of breaking load in 100 days.  At 30%
> load it creeps 9% in 100 days!
>
> Kevlar 49 creeps 0.041% and 0.05% respectively.   A search for "creep"
> on the Phillystran web site yielded no hits.

I believe Phillystran is Kevlar, or the core (load bearing part) is and 
it has a very tough jacket.

73

Roger (K8RI)


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