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Plastics Structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

G. C. Hulbert
G. C. Hulbert*
Affiliation:
Polyester Technical Service, Scott Bader & Co. Ltd.
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More than two years ago Pollard in a paper given to the Society made out the case for the use of fibre-reinforced plastics in the structural field. He and others have shown that materials based on strong, inert fibres, such as glass or asbestos, have mechanical properties which, when stabilised by suitable resins, permit them to function with a high degree of efficiency within certain well defined parameters of loading.

Four distinct groups of resin are used in combination with such fibres, phenolic, polyester, epoxide and silicone. With the present exception of silicone resins, each can be used at low or even contact pressures during moulding and thus do not impose serious processing limitation upon the size, quantity or complexity of the structures which can be contemplated.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 60 , Issue 542 , February 1956 , pp. 114 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1956

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