On May 2, 2018 11:41:04 PM UTC, "Rick Willoughby
rickwill@bigpond.net.au [harryproa]"
<harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:
>Delamination is right on the point. XPS has a tensile
strength of 0.4MPa.
Do you mean that was the value of the grade you speced in
your prototype hull? You could have used a much better
spec XPS. Why did you chose .4MPa?
>H80 PVC foam has a tensile strength of 2.5MPa. That is
a massive difference as it relates to delamination.
I have not seen a reference supporting delamination being
related to tensile strength. Would you mind sharing?
Typically delamination is related to over stressing the
part afaik.
>I made a long slender prototype hull from a block of
XPS. The skin was 200gsm carbon fibre. Over a few uses
water found its way through pinholes and some surface
scratches and that initiated progressive delamination
through various processes like handling and thermal
expansion of the water including a few periods of ice in
cold weather.
While i appreciate you sharing your experience. It seems
like you are suggesting this is always true. Is that what
you mean?
Do you think if you had taken care to not have pinholes,
it would have happened the same way?
Because many different home built aircraft have been
flying for going on 50 years. Many of these have been
known to be stored, outdoors, in northern costal states,
for their entire lives, with the freezing rain, snow,
sleet, and hail one would expect a tied down aircraft to
experience. Along with the sweat inducing tarmac
temperature in the same day.
Delamination is unheard of. Unless builder error. Or
violent accident.
>Once water can get in, it pumps the bond by forming a
bubble under the skin.. The temperature of the water in
the bubble could range from 10C to 40C in a matter of
hours. The expansion works away at the edges of the bubble
and extends it.
>
>A thin skin with pinholes on H80 PVC foam does not
deteriorate the same way.
Your theory is that water works on XPS epoxy interface
different than PVC epoxy interface? Why would that be?
Usually these aircraft will sometimes notice a bubble if
there is a water infiltration problem. Which is easily
fixed. The shearing of a whole skin off a core does not
happen.
Another explanation is the composite put too much stress
on the core and it failed. And the XPS skin interface is
where that failure shows up. This seems to agree with Robs
observations too. Or perhaps the surface was contaminated.
(with silicon?)
>The bond must be strong enough to prevent the thermal
fretting of the bond.
Do you have a reference for this? Cause my experiences
suggest that this characterization is not supported by the
thousands of flying machines I am aware of. These see way
more thermal cycling than a boat ever would. Its cold at
20k ft and 200mph. And hot parked on the tarmac. How many
times a day they see that just depends on how many 100$
hamburgers one feels like in a day.
>XPS is a lower cost means of quickly building a
disposable hull. PVC H80 is good for a durable hull that
will give years of service.
XPS has given years of service to some. It serves in some
pretty tough environments.