Nice post!
I love shaping boards…are we all moving or searching for that indestructible surfboard? I love to try it on/in my hawaiian fishing boards.
howzit Honolulu…I guess someone really stepped into your profession? Geez, your only an engineer for one of Hawaii’s largest concrete/dredging companies.
Hold on with the concrete analogy. Concrete IS strong in compression, but IS weak in tension. Someonen starting off a post my screwing up these basic facts is, um, mis-stating the facts, or worse. Well that's the internet - information worth what you pay for it.
Re-read my post, but this time, don’t just skim through it. It says “cement” is poor in compression, not “concrete”. I’m referring to just the cement, no sand and aggregate to improve it’s compression strength. I even say in the first paragraph that when you add the aggregate it improves compression properties.
I still think that nanoparticles can be similar to aggregate in concrete. But I used aggregate as an example. Sand is also used in concrete and improves compression. If thats not small enough for you, fly ash is also added and improves compression as well.
So I think that you have to look at the nanoparticle and see if it’s a material that is good in compression. It just makes sense to me that as you increase the percentage of that nanoparticle in the resin, it will increase the compression properties. Of course, I’m just using compression as an example. The same should apply to other nanoparticle attributes to achieve other desired properties.
It might help to understand if you think of the resin as the glue that holds together all the stuff that has the strength and other good properties. The resin itself does not have good strength properties so you want to use the least amount necessary to hold everything else together. It’s pretty similar to the cement in concrete.
By the way, basic concrete is a composite just like FRP. It’s a good example of combining many different materials with specific properties to get a composite with many good properties. Just like how we combine foam, fiberglass and resin.
LOL!! Uncle D, you just made me fall off my seat!!! Tits* board!!
*Tits : is an navy fighter pilot term for good all around machine. from what I understand its nearly everything you could want a “magic” plane, but it isn’t the most advanced in technology. >>> Tits Machine ~ A good, righteous airplane. Current airplanes need not apply, this is a nostalgic term referring to birds gone by. By all accounts the F-8 Crusader was a tits machine <<<
hmmm . . . there was an article posted about nanotubes, I think by the same originator of this very thread. Interesting stuff. I remember the nanotubes from carbon fibre had good compression ratios . . . but the stuff was hella expensive.
wonder if backyarders can get into this high tech factory industrialized highly commericalized surfboard building world.
Maybe have a company that has the tech, but allows backyarders to come in a do custom designs . … you pay a “rent” and “materials” fee but it would be reasonable, and crank out stuff like Burton Islands would.
I am very sceptical at this point 
Such things are never made for surfboards in the first place…if it really works so well, guess what next years F1 cars are laminated off? Or doesn`t it work with carbon?
The last thing that really fascinated me where these Bamboo Boards…Sunny Garcia was sayed to promote them? They where sayed to be light and thougher than anything…yet flexible (they also produced bamboo skateboards with 30% more pop than maple boards)
I want real inovation 
let’s bring surf to the mainland and help developing “Liquid Stadion”