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Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
Geodetic Construction. I think as it, as a simple explanation, as the shortest distance between two fixed points on a curved surface. It is much more complicated than that, of-course, involving two intersecting arcs on a curved surface, resulting in the forces cancelling each other out.
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What, you mean like Kevlar and, preferably, bullet-proof?
If the helmets are anything to go by, the weight of bonded kevlar thick enough to have that sort of property is probably not much less than a metallic armour(?)
No doubt thin, hard armour skins over bonded kevlar etc. has already been tried.
Bonded cloths are certainly much simpler and cheaper to work with than metals though: no need for massive hydraulic presses or CNC mills. Somewhat analogous to the Mosquito in WWII Heavy Press Program - Wikipedia
For all its apparent complexity that geodesic framing was actually quite simple mechanically, and IIRC of a very limited number of different parts.
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