Jerry can holder

[Tookey]

though I havn't direct experience of aramid, from talking to avant-garde motorsport people I thought aramid (=kevlar) was great for resisting puncture and abrasion, but use glass fibre for strength (or carbon-fibre if you're posh) . Ultimate was CF protected by a top layer of kevlar.
Either way, the shape will be more important. IMO you still cant just hang 2 jerrycans in the middle of a GRP panel, even in a monocoque, you've got to design a structure to carry this weight, esp off-road. E.g. add wood struts back the the chassis, using them as a former to glass over and create a box section.
Or just do it in steel, so that failure is some bending, rather than disintegration of your body structure...

So you're inclined to agree with the reply I received? post 34

 

[SquirrellCook]

Just to let you know, all my posts are based on no practical experience and we keep this for decoration.

 

[wildebus]

Where's the bacofoil?

 

[Nabsim]

Fibreglass is very strong, it’s not like an Ali shell that will fracture with flex/vibration.

 

[mistericeman]

Fibreglass is very strong, it’s not like an Ali shell that will fracture with flex/vibration.

Fibre glass/composites are immensely strong (as is aluminium)

Used in certain ways....

Ask most folks with a fibreglass bodied car about stress cracks/starring etc...

Same with ally bodied cars (landrovers suffer with galvanic corrosion/stress fractures from work hardening from vibration)

Used correctly glass fibre is, immensely strong for its weight BUT will almost drop apart before your very eyes subjected to stresses the part wasn't designed to cope with.

 

[SquirrellCook]

Fibre glass/composites are immensely strong (as is aluminium)

Used in certain ways....

Ask most folks with a fibreglass bodied car about stress cracks/starring etc...

Same with ally bodied cars (landrovers suffer with galvanic corrosion/stress fractures from work hardening from vibration)

Used correctly glass fibre is, immensely strong for its weight BUT will almost drop apart before your very eyes subjected to stresses the part wasn't designed to cope with.

Hence in my work I use hybrid composites based on likely failure points.