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Authors
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Mäder, E.
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Title
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Reduced weight fibre-reinforced polymers
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Date
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23.09.2004
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Number
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12572
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Abstract
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The EC, an active supporter of the Rio Earth Summit and its principal agendas of sustainable growth, has supported numerous projects that aim to actively embrace such philosophies. In one such project, the EC foresaw a need to source<br />new polymer composite materials that would have equal strength of present day materials, but display reduced weight characteristics.<br /><br />Fibre-reinforced polymers are a composition of at least two different polymers, one that contains strength and toughness and the other that displays elastic/flexible mechanical properties. The polymers that are combined are able to trade off their inherent weaknesses for the strengths of the other. This then provides new materials with equal or greater strength and lower weight when compared to comparative materials of today.
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Publisher
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CORDIS Focus RTD Results Supplement
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Wikidata
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Citation
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CORDIS Focus RTD Results Supplement 47 (2004) 39
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DOI
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ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/focus/docs/res47.pdf
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