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Originally Posted by aschen
Having no expertise in composites I am still a bit confused why the choice of carbon fiber here. Makes perfect sense if the pressure was internal.
Is light weight really an advantage for the vessel itself or does it just a convenience for handling operations?
Interesting paper 100% on subject, just skimmed but says tube started delaminating at pressure less than predicted by FE computational methods.
https://www.iccm-central.org/Proceedings/ICCM12proceedings/site/papers/pap631.pdf
Stick me in a Inconel, titanium of high grade stainless tube please. Save the composites for planes, bikes, and sportscar theatre |
weight is important because only certain vessels (presumably the expensive ones) can handle heavier subs off the back. heavier, also makes them bigger. bigger again, you need more specialized (read: $$$) ships to handle it.
this thing seems to have tried to get around this with the submersible/towable support system too.
all about keeping the costs low. i wonder what doing it properly costs? wonder what a seat in one of these other submersibles that actually works costs? gotta be a million plus a ticket.