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This modern stuff is all well and good, but I want my Pykrete aircraft carrier !!! Fantastic! Moor it just off Trobruk and you've solved drinking water and air-cover in on fell swoop!
Fantastic! Moor it just off Trobruk and you've solved drinking water and air-cover in on fell swoop! ....though for a shorter time than in the North Atlantic! Reading through the stuff on Bainite armour, I can';t help thinking of Chainmail....most people think that the strength of chainmail was in its rivetted steel rings - but this is NOT the case It's REAL strength was that when a blow landed on chainmail, it pushed in until the movement between the links was taken up...at which point every single contact point ring-on-ring fed out the stresses to the whole area of the garment! A very early form of shock absorbtion Also - any classic bike head would know that CORRECT drilling of components adds strength by controlling the stress points, creating paths to lead it away from bolt holes, mounting bosses etc. With care and knowledge, a bit of drilled steel plate can be stronger than plain plate!
That's why I have so much trouble cutting proper slices out of Emmentaler cheese, the knife keeps snagging in the holes.
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Phylo - That principle was used in the construction of the bombers - Wellingtons etc - in the early part of the war which led to one of their engineers starting up the "Dexion" slotted steel members for storage racking etc - he was Maltese and why he called it "Dexion" as it is apparently a village there where he came from ! Cheers
