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01/12/2011 - Yarn creep tester - DSM Dyneema
At the request of DSM Dyneema, ESI-CIT Group has built a 10-fold measurement setup for measuring the creep of yarns made of polyethylene synthetic fibers. Creep is the effect of elongation of a yarn when facing a constant load. The measurement setup consists of a set of climate chambers in which a single yarn is hung with a variable load. The creep measurements can run for hours, days or even months. During that time, the extension of the wire is continuously monitored and logged with an accuracy of a few micrometers.Dyneema ® is a super-strong synthetic fiber based on polyethylene (UHMWPE = ultra high molecular weight polyethylene). In the thirties of the previous century, scientists have predicted that, based on polyethylene (PE) fibers could be made strong. Late in the seventies scientists at the DSM laboratories in the Dutch Geleen actually developed a process for doing so. The patent was applied for in 1979. Since then the synthetic fiber has found its way in various applications:
• The shipping industry (the material floats): fishing lines, nets, marine rope, sails (participants in the Volvo Ocean Race use the rope).
• Gloves used in dangerous circumstances: eg, butchers, and the handling of sharp materials like glass, the metal industry and paper handling.
• bullet-proof products: jackets, helmets, police car panels and cockpit doors.
• anchoring oil rigs (very long steel cables collapse under their own weight).
• protective devices in sports, such as short track, fencing and ice hockey.
• kite sport lines for power kites and kite surfing.
• Other sports: base material for the manufacture of tendons for archery.
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