Aramid Fiber Ropes

Aramid ropes are made of aramid filament fiber. Aramid fiber has excellent strength. By this measure of its tensile strength to weight ratio, is 6 times than steel wire, 3 times as stronger as fiberglass, 2 times stronger than high-strength nylon fiber. And the tensile modulus is 3 times stronger than steel wire, is 2 times as stronger as the fiberglass, is 10 times more than high-strength nylon fiber. Aramid has an extremely wide range of continuous use temperatures, it can long-term operation in the range of -196°C to 340 °C. The shrinkage is 0 in the 150°C and it does not decompose and melt at the temperature of 560°C.

Aramid rope has many excellent properties: fireproof, flame retardant, high temperature resistant, abrasion resistant, cut resistant, high strength, low elongation, insulation, and dielectric properties.

Physical: Instantaneous temperature of 585°C, long time working temperature is 260°C-330°C
Mechanical: 3% breaking strength, Intensity 2.8Gpa

Applications of Aramid
Aramid ropes are widely used in many special requirement areas such as engineering cable, slings, safety ropes, aerial work rope, lead rope, paragliding rope, water-skiing tow rope, marine rescue rope, transport lifting rope, cut the resistant rope, abrasion-resistant rope, flame retardant rope, high-temperature resistant rope, chemical resistant rope, and other special requirement rope.

Properties of Aramid fiber

High strength to weight ratio
Low elongation to break
Low thermal shrinkage
Good heat & flame resistance
Self-extinguishing flame retardant properties
Good chemical resistance
Excellent bulletproof/ballistic properties
High cut resistance (not so easy to cut off than normal fibers)
UV resistance good (ONLY on black and other non-natural color fiber)
UV resistance poor (natural, and please notice this is the MAIN WEAKNESS of aramid fiber)