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advantages and disadvantages of ropes

What is the advantages and disadvantages of different material of ropes


In marine applications, there are five main types of fiber ropes, polypropylene, polyester, nylon, polymer, and aramid. Each has some good advantages, but also some disadvantages.

rope often combines different materials to produce high-quality ropes according to customer needs, and maximizes the advantages of each material to meet customer needs. Marineusedgood.com give some detailed information for four main kinds of used material for ropes, which is highly and widly used in marine related area.


Polypropylene rope:

   Advantages: 1. Floating water 2. Low price 3. Not sensitive to chemical attack 4. Strong and wear-resistant 5. No water absorption 6. No strong loss in water

   Disadvantages: 1. Poor UV resistance 2. Low strength 3. Low melting point 4. Low stretchability (not as good as nylon) 5. Hand feeling

   Uses: 1. Small boat main mast control rope 2. Rescue rope 3. Towing rope 4. rope used on skis


Nylon Rope:

   Advantages: 1. Good UV resistance 2. Shock absorption (good stretch) 3. Good chemical resistance 4. Moderate price

   Disadvantages: 1. Too elastic 2. Performance weakens after being wet

   Uses: 1. Anchor line 2. Towing line 3. Mooring line 4. Safety line


Polymer Rope:


   Advantages: 1. High strength 2. Not wet with water 3. Good chemical resistance 4. Good abrasion resistance 5. Good UV resistance 6. Light and floating 7. Good resistance to flexural fatigue

   Disadvantages: 1. Too slippery 2. Low melting point 3. Easy to deform under continuous load 4. High price

   Uses: 1. High-performance rope used on yachts 2. Replace steel rope


Aramid Rope:

   Advantages: 1. High strength 2. Low stretchability 3. Not easy to deform 4. Fire resistance 5. Good chemical resistance 6. Cut resistance 7. Insulation

   Disadvantages: 1. Sensitive to ultraviolet rays 2. Sensitive to impact 3. Sensitive to chlorine 4. Poor flexural fatigue resistance 5. The strength becomes lower after knotting 6. The price is high

  Usage: 1 winch rope 2 replace steel wire rope where weight is required 3 use on large ships without insulated cables


Above are Marineusedgood brief summary for ropes, welcom to more suggestion to us by info@marineusedgood.com.


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