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Tycan® in AWE?                 
(or similar soft fiber-link chain; fibre link)

https://tycan.com/
  • What is Tycan®?    (or similar soft chain?)
  • Where in AWE might Tycan® be used?
    • Lifting operations in sub-assembly in a kite system?
    • Ground -based kite-driven lines?
    • PTO on ground?
    • Drag-mass ground-based lines?
    • Ground ring lines?
    • Challenge of sprocket driving?
    • Climb lines?
    • ?
  • Green Pin Tycan® Chains     video
  • How are those links made? 
  • Recall kindergarten paper chains?  Give each link of paper a half twist to form Mobius strip links.
  • Chain verses rope, etc.?
  • [ ] why are the links with a half twist? An apparent Mobius strip? Is it to share the wear?  "The webbing is made from Dyneema UHMW (ultra-high molecular weight) polyethylene fibres, which the makers DSM claim is the world’s strongest fibre. Each link is formed of eight layers of webbing; one of the unique selling points is that the flat web is given a half-twist before the ends are joined to form a link. Each link is therefore what mathematicians call a Möbius strip. The advantage is that the arrangement serves to equalise the strains in each of the eight layers of webbing. If the ends were joined conventionally, the innermost web-layer would be shorter than the outermost ones, and would carry either more or less of the load." QuoteSouirce

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