Most people are not familiar with the criteria for “structural reinforcement” or Structural Enhancement. For any structure or container to attain Composite Reinforcement, two or more materials are combined – each with very different types of strength, and different attributes which are complimentary. Among the earliest composites known to man, were the composite hunting bows which date from prehistoric times – and composite hunting bows remain with us to this day. But today, we have enormously advanced technologies available to us for our own environmental protection as well as our energy needs and food distribution. We can literally form enormously strong composite walls, for any purpose we desire. We can provide our own earthquake prevention within our containment structures, buildings, infrastructure and even our homes and workplaces. Structural enhancement, can now keep us safe, and our structures and transportation intact, in even the worst environmental extremes. Composite materials reinforcement and the structural enhancement of our power distribution centers, as well as our Nuclear Reactors, can keep us supplied with water and power in the worst of emergencies and can keep us safe from our own energy sources. That same structural enhancement can be used on our waterfront structures, in our ships and on our offshore oil platforms. Environmental protection from our paper and pulp mills, as well as our farm, livestock and poultry farms is easily and economically accomplished with composite material reinforcement, and containment of hazardous materials is now easily accomplished through structural enhancement of our containment structures with impermeable and extremely long-lasting economical composite materials reinforcement. Our water supplies, can likewise be protected from contamination and degradation due to “fracking” and aging water and wastewater infrastructure degradation. All of this becomes eminently practical through the use of composite materials reinforcement. We need no longer fear the invisible corrosion inherent in steel and steel-reinforced concrete construction. And maintenance ceases to be the enormous expense it has always been. The weight and inherent danger to human lives and property from those conventional building materials, ceases to be a factor.

Ship hulls and trucking containers used to transport potentially hazardous materials, can be retrofitted with or constructed with, structural enhancement materials which provide a huge measure of safety for both our environment and the public at large.

Simulform Co-Liners are uniquely suited to these purposes, due to their ability to interface with other materials without inducing “stress concentrations”, which cause other composites to fail at their interface with other materials. Carbon fibers and other high-strength materials are wonderfully strong, but have little ability to integrate themselves with the “host material” in a complimentary way. Simulform Co-Liners rely on covalent bonding for structural enhancement, rather than on mechanical or adhesive bonds, which simply do not last and cause enormous stress concentrations which cannot be distributed evenly over large areas for extended periods of time. Co-Liners literally become “part” of the host materials, and cannot be separated once they have cured. Any attempted deflection of the structural host, will transfer the loads within the Structural Polymer, and the host will “rebound” almost instantly – with little if any, deformation of the “host”. The “moment of inertia” is shifted with the use of a Co-Liner, much as the flanges on an “I” beam behave in either tension or compression, as necessary. That principle is fundamental to aircraft design and engineering, and it SHOULD be fundamental to a much broader range of architecture and engineering – as it now CAN be. It isn't “rocket science”... and yet, it IS... What it ISN'T, is complicated or expensive. It is structural enhancement through the use of composite materials reinforcement, using covalent molecular bonding for permanency, reliability and durability.