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Composite structural beams and method

US3995081A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 7, 1974
Grant dateNov 30, 1976
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Expiry dateOct 7, 1994

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/24711
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Strong, lightweight structural shapes or structures adapted for anistropic load bearing useful as structural beams or stiffeners for other structures, e.g., aircraft and which prevent or have improved resistance to forces tending to peel apart the structures, i.e., incipient peel. The shapes are fabricated from plicated laminates of strips or sheets of resinous, filament reinforced, composite materials having high strength and low weight. Fabrication of the shapes is carried out in such manner that upon curing of the resin the resultant stiffener shapes are capable of distributing loading forces so as to reduce localization of stresses.

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