Given equal total mass, is a line stronger when woven with more fibers or woven with fewer fibers?
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Hypothetical strength?
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Re: Hypothetical strength?
Without thinking, I'd say thicker line is stronger and better. So less woven strands is stronger.
I guess it's like paint. Two coatings and it maybe too thin as it's easily scratched off. Twenty coatings and it maybe too thick so it cracks on itself. So it's somewhere in between there.
When it comes to lines, I suppose it depends on material properties. There's a threshold of optimal strength to diameter performance. So the argument in theory can go either way. Sometimes it goes to looking at equal mass, the material shape and form can be very different. A more solid single fiber material vs a lighter more cell like structure of fibrous material. When you put these things under tension and strain one type will give in sooner. When a more solid single fiber material begins to buckle, it's goes out very quickly. When a lighter more cell like material begins to buckle, it's the strands that begins to give out in succession. You can also look at the overall round shape vs a flat ribbon like shape. A round shape under tension and strain tends to flatten out. A flat ribbonlike shape under strain tends to curl or compress together. I would lean to that the round shape will give out sooner becuase it has less tolerance under the stress of being flatten out. I'm thinking kind of round nylon ropes vs flat nylon straps. Just my theories with no logic in it.
I guess it's like paint. Two coatings and it maybe too thin as it's easily scratched off. Twenty coatings and it maybe too thick so it cracks on itself. So it's somewhere in between there.
When it comes to lines, I suppose it depends on material properties. There's a threshold of optimal strength to diameter performance. So the argument in theory can go either way. Sometimes it goes to looking at equal mass, the material shape and form can be very different. A more solid single fiber material vs a lighter more cell like structure of fibrous material. When you put these things under tension and strain one type will give in sooner. When a more solid single fiber material begins to buckle, it's goes out very quickly. When a lighter more cell like material begins to buckle, it's the strands that begins to give out in succession. You can also look at the overall round shape vs a flat ribbon like shape. A round shape under tension and strain tends to flatten out. A flat ribbonlike shape under strain tends to curl or compress together. I would lean to that the round shape will give out sooner becuase it has less tolerance under the stress of being flatten out. I'm thinking kind of round nylon ropes vs flat nylon straps. Just my theories with no logic in it.
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