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Stealth Pilot wrote: btw dont be beguiled by the semantics. the glue strength doesnt change with the glue area since it is a force per unit area measurement. the glue area directly changes the amount of total force that the rib fabric join can stand. a pound per square inch strength applied to a square inch can hold a pound a pound per square inch strength applied over a square foot can hold one hundred and fourty four pounds. Stealth Pilot Australia I'll bite into this topic from an intellectual curiosity perspective. What are the forces acting on a rag plane that would tug against the rib bond? Source? Direction? Magnitude? How common are such bond failures? What is the cause? Poor surface prep or other application shortcomings? Deterioration of the glue or fabric over time? Other? If I take a 3" long piece of tape and stick it on my desk, and a 12" long piece and stick it next to it, does it take more force to peel the longer one, or just more time? I'd say a wider one would stick more assertively, but not a longer one. Is this at all analogous to what's going on in an airplane, or way off? Has this been studied like wing loading, with safety margins built in? Does an airplane fall out of the sky if the fabric starts letting go? I guess eventually it would, if pieces started tearing and departing the airplane. That would disrupt the airflow, I imagine. There was a discussion of punch testing a short time back. Is there also a "pull test" to see whether the glue bonds are getting ready to fail? These are the things that I think about while I struggle valiantly to smash two rivets to the same shape and size. |
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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:13:37 -0700, Smitty Two
wrote: In article , Stealth Pilot wrote: btw dont be beguiled by the semantics. the glue strength doesnt change with the glue area since it is a force per unit area measurement. the glue area directly changes the amount of total force that the rib fabric join can stand. a pound per square inch strength applied to a square inch can hold a pound a pound per square inch strength applied over a square foot can hold one hundred and fourty four pounds. Stealth Pilot Australia I'll bite into this topic from an intellectual curiosity perspective. What are the forces acting on a rag plane that would tug against the rib bond? Source? Direction? Magnitude? How common are such bond failures? What is the cause? Poor surface prep or other application shortcomings? Deterioration of the glue or fabric over time? Other? I'll reply for the other guys benefit. I dont know what you'll read into this :-) glue bonds fail over time from the stress rise at the edge of the joint. air pressure will create a force perpendicular to the surface. have a look in a text at one of the manometer photos of a wing section under test to get an idea of the pressure distribution. the predominant cause of failure in fabric bonds is the reversing loads created by turbulence from the slipstream off the prop. outside of the slipstream competently bonded fabric seldom fails. the fabric bond fails from the edge and slowly the failure creeps inward across the joint. ribstitching in the area of the slipstream works to correct the problem because it doesnt have stress risers occurring at the edges of the thread. my method of checking the stits fabric on my tailwind is to look inside the tailcone out in the bright sunlight and pick the areas where the uv opaquing was poorly done. I then make the "bird" with one hand and walk along those areas banging the finger into the fabric as hard as my hand will allow. If I ever get a puncture I'll initially repair it. If I get areas of punctures then it is in for a refabric. I've wanted to refabric the aircraft for a few years now but the stits seems to have an infinite life. I cant detect any deterioration other than in the visual appearance of the paint. not a complete disertation but then the other guy wasnt asking much. Stealth Pilot |
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