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Glassfibre Braided Biaxial Sleeving

  • Braids provide much greater stiffness than knits for the same matrix weight.
  • Braids produce fabricated sockets with much lower weight.
  • Braids are made using much higher modulus fibers.
  • Braids provide greater impact and flexural strength in composites.
  • Braids are far superior for fabricating thin wall composite parts.
SKU: GBSM / GBSML Category:

Description

Designed to decrease mass and lay up fabrication time of laminations whilst increasing strength and rigidity, the Glassfibre Braided Sleeving provides increased part performance, decreased manufacturing time and a more cost effective solution to practitioner’s laminating needs.

Braided fiberglass is a much better choice over knitted fiberglass/nylon products for reinforcing Prosthetic sockets. You can fabricate sockets that are much stiffer, thinner and lighter than with knitted stockinette.

Glassfibre braided sleeving produces sockets that are just as strong as those made with carbon fiber with similar layups, but much lighter and stiffer than when using knitted tubular reinforcement products.

Using fiberglass braid for the outer reinforcement layer of your socket allows you to choose whatever color pigment you need for your resin. (i.e. a hybrid layup using a combination of carbon and fiberglass braid).

We supply a full range of braided fiberglass biaxial sleeving covering the following LAY FLAT sizes:

Item Code Weight
 Nom. LF Width cm/in LF Size Range cm Circumference Range cm
GBSM8 Medium 8 cm / 3” 4 – 10 cm 8 – 20 cm
GBSM12 Medium 12 cm / 5” 5 – 14 cm 10 – 28 cm
GBSM20 Medium 20 cm / 8” 8 – 20 cm 16 – 40 cm
GBSM28 Medium 28 cm / 11” 13 – 31 cm 26 – 62 cm
GBSM36 Medium 36 cm / 14” 18 – 42 cm 36 – 84 cm
GBSM44 Medium 44 cm / 17” 25 – 50 cm 50 – 100 cm
GBSL16 Light 16 cm / 6″ 7 – 18 cm 14 – 36 cm
GBSL24 Light 24 cm / 9.5″ 11 – 28 cm 22 – 56 cm
GBSL24H Light 24 cm / 9.5″ 11 – 28 cm 22 – 56 cm
GBSL32 Light 36 cm / 14″ 18 – 42 cm 36 – 84 cm

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