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Old 04-25-13, 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Andrew R Stewart
My understanding of the use of honeycombed interiors is to provide a incompressible core with very little weight. This way the outside layers are actually forming a "box" which will have more stiffness then a single layer alone. Quite the opposite of the CLD mentioned before. Andy.
Undoubtedly provides higher stiffness per mass but surely it's also designed to allow for compliance as well, no?
I'd have to see a sample of that material and do a "squeeze" test to see if the core doesn't have the capacity to move.
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