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Old 08-08-2016, 08:25 AM   #2
Ottriman
 
Join Date: Apr 2015
Default Re: Cutting-Edge Armor Design at TL10

Only on of these questions I can hope to answer is number 1.

When home brewing TL 10-12 materials I made these stats for TL 10 nanoweave.

WM: 0,02
CM: $750 ($150 at TL11+)
DR/in: 150
Max DR: 66
Notes: F, Full DR vs cutting and piercing but 1/3rd vs other
Construction: F/O

Note that I am not entirely sure how realistic this is, I went for about enough to be a notable step up while still not making it that much better that no player would ever be tempted to go for cheaper basic nanoweave.

Since this has around 4 times he DR/inch of kevlar that would make it around 16 times as strong (since a bullet must be around 4x as fast to pierce it and thus have ~16 times the KE).

A quick wikipedia look gives me an ultimate tensile strength of 3,757 Gigapascals for kevlar, 11-63 Gigapascals for CNT and 130 Gigapascals for Graphene.

3,757 * 16 = 60,112 Gigapascals for the stuff of this hypothetical nanoweave, roughly speaking.

So these are some fairly optimistic stats overall.

Hope I helped, even if only a little.

BTW, the tensile strength list I used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_tensile_strength

EDIT: I goofed terribly, the strength measurements are based on pressure which is based on force and thus linear with velocity. 4x the Dr would be equal to 4x the tensile strength under that assumption.

Last edited by Ottriman; 08-08-2016 at 12:15 PM.
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