I can think of a couple:
- Durable stringy clothing items
- Thinner ropes? Particularly relevant is for safety applications.
- Fiber ropes are particularly advantageous when compared to steel ropes in applications that require repeated bending.
- Durable stringy clothing items
- Thinner ropes? Particularly relevant is for safety applications.
- Fiber ropes are particularly advantageous when compared to steel ropes in applications that require repeated bending.
I mean, you could in theory rappel from something like 2mm dyneema line with very comfortable safety margin on tensile strength alone, but 1. keeping a say 60m long 2mm line untangled is a serious headache, and I would not be comfortable holding my weight on the 2mm rope while letting it scratch against a rock wall .
And to be clear, I believe there are multiple applications for higher tensile strength fibers. I just can't see that many applications where thinner ropes than current technology produces would be a game changer.