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Post by Rocket Witch on Apr 29, 2017 18:54:22 GMT
Sorry, I wasn't following what "the new UHMWPE" meant closely enough. Your point is fair enough, and if bulk UHMWPE is still tank-friendly, it really doesn't matter that much. That said, as far as organic polymers go, if these things are being manufactured with some kind of atomic scale manufacturing technique, it may be trivial to just crosslink all your fibers 10 microns or whatever in from your interior surface when you're initially plating the tank out to begin with, depending on the fiber arrangement. If all the porous flag is doing is preventing you from using particular materials as fuel containers, it may not necessarily apply to all fibers. Oh certainly. That is a great point. I figure such a fiber ought to be flagged with IsNanostructured which might raise the price much more than being porous, say to something like 1.5kc/kg, though if it could produce tanks with mass ratios of >500 it would still be very cheap to use. The only thing is it would be nice to know if and how these changes would affect the strength of the material. RCC performs quite differently to plain carbon. Why can't we make a UHMWPE fiber tank with inside coated with PTFE? The game allows coatings for radiators, and composite gun barrels were only just implemented, so I would consider composite and lined propellant tanks to be awaiting implementation rather than abstracted away by design. That is, if we clamour for increased fuel system fidelity, I'm sure we'll see it added in. Q just hasn't done it yet and the game is still being developed/supported. If the community shows qswitched that this is desired, I think it is very likely to come about. How soon it will come though, I can't say; my own suggestion for internal weapon mounts came months after I posted my warship design infographic. Engines, barrels, radiators, crew modules, turbopumps, momentum wheels, and probably more are prevented from using porous/fibrous materials. I wonder why it matters much for pumps (which should still work when soaked, though perhaps a little slower) and at all for momentum wheels (though I don't think one can make a solid fibrous object like that and expect it to have the same tensile properties). I remember a thread in the past about separating radiator pipe material from the solid area and armour, so that we could use porous materials (ie. aerogel, aerogel and more aerogel) to construct the parts with.
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Post by Dhan on Apr 29, 2017 22:09:13 GMT
Has anyone messed with the minimum armor thickness limit to allow more reasonable decorative use?
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Post by subunit on Apr 30, 2017 0:48:57 GMT
If all the porous flag is doing is preventing you from using particular materials as fuel containers, it may not necessarily apply to all fibers. Engines, barrels, radiators, crew modules, turbopumps, momentum wheels, and probably more are prevented from using porous/fibrous materials. Ah, that makes sense. I think probably a thin-surface cross-link would not be sufficient for a gun barrel material, so porousness should probably just remain as it is.
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