We ve decided on laminate and i ll make hardwood edging.
Is laminate safe if a ply fails.
Lightweight snap together laminate flooring is installed over a thin foam cushion underlayment.
Heavy safes and vault doors require steel cold roll pins.
7mm is the bottom of the barrel laminate flooring but let s say you find an excellent price on it.
I discussed earlier that thickness isn t the biggest factor in durability.
When stress in the first ply or a first group of plies is high enough it fails.
You assume that the ply fails completely which is a very strong assumption but it still provides workable results.
Good to have a fuse somewhere.
I m going to make some replacement countertops for my kitchen.
They are better with a lightweight safe because they will give or just break if in a bind against something.
Is 7mm laminate flooring any good.
This makes it possible to cover almost anything from linoleum to vinyl ceramic to hardwood and of course concrete and plywood sub floors.
I wanted to do solid surface but maunfacturers won t sell to you unless you are certified.
I m trying to decide between using plywood and particle board.
Snap together laminate flooring eliminates the need for voc releasing glues.
That makes it a good candidate for installations over most existing flooring with the exception of carpet eliminating the need for tear out.
Laminate flooring cannot be installed over carpet.
Go back to 1 and repeat.
I dont know about the floor though.
Thus this ply will have to be degraded twice.
For a safe design laminates should not experience stress high enough to cause fpf.
Carpet is the only exception.
Roll it on wooden dowel pins.
Is it worth buying.
If this second ply is the same ply that has failed by matrix degradation from micro cracking fiber degradation will be the only path.
It s possible that a manufacturer could make a highly durable 7mm laminate.
You set the properties of this failed ply to zero.
But if the first ply has failed as a result of fiber failure it cannot fail again through matrix failure.
This ply can only fail once.
Particle board is often confused with oriented strand board also known as flakeboard waferboard or chipboard a different type of fiberboard that uses machined wood flakes and offers more strength.
We lay 1 2 ply wood down.
There are web sites that will sell to anybody but color choices and supplies may be limited.
This point of failure is the first ply failure fpf beyond which a laminate can still carry the load.
Angle ply carbon epoxy composite laminates were tested under uniaxial compression at two strain rates 10 4 and 1 s 1.
In this study failure is defined as maximum ply damage.
Laminate flooring is a floating floor system meaning it is designed to cover any floor surface without being fixed to it.
