Fiber-reinforced composite materials are rarely used in cruise or merchant ships for fire safety reasons. Saertex has now developed a fire-retardant standard panel and, together with the Meyer Group, designed the sun deck and outer walls of a river cruise ship in a sandwich construction that saves 45 % of the weight.
\nThe use of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) has been standard in boatbuilding for many years. However, these materials are still rarely used in large ships such as cruise liners or merchant ships, even though the use of composite materials would offer many advantages in terms of energy savings, fire safety, design freedom and maintenance. In a research and development project, Saertex, together with the Meyer Group, has succeeded in replacing steel and aluminum in shipbuilding with composite materials...<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Save weight, increase safety: Fire-retardant composite panel revolutionizes shipbuilding - Fibre-reinforced composite materials are rarely used in cruise or merchant ships for fire safety reasons. Saertex has now developed a fire-retardant standard panel and, together with the Meyer Group, designed the sun deck and outer walls of a river cruise ship in a sandwich construction that saves 45 % of weight. The use of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) has been standard in boat building for many years. However, these materials are still rarely used in large vessels such as cruise ships or merchant ships, even though the use of composite materials would offer many advantages in terms of energy savings, fire safety, design freedom and maintenance. In a research and development project, Saertex, together with the Meyer Group, has succeeded in replacing steel and aluminum in shipbuilding with composite materials...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"competences":[],"brands":[],"class_list":["post-18365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-article"],"acf":{"news_contact":"","news_video_youtube":"","project_subheadline":"Gewicht sparen, Sicherheit erh\u00f6hen: Brandhemmende Verbundplatte revolutioniert den Schiffbau","project_gallery":[{"field_62ebd9c88c8d4":"","field_62ecd2f4b92f5":""}],"project_gallery_height":450,"project_gallery_effect":"coverflow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18365"},{"taxonomy":"competences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/competences?post=18365"},{"taxonomy":"brands","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saertex.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brands?post=18365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}