CFRP lightweight structures for extremely large telescopes

Composite Structures

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 310-316

  Jessen, Niels Christian ^a   Nørgaard Nielsen, Hans Ulrik ^a   Schroll, Jørgen ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Xperion ACE Advanced Composites Engineering A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CFRP; High stiffness; OWL; XLT

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; LIGHT WEIGHT STRUCTURES; STIFFNESS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

HIGH STIFFNESS; LARGE TELESCOPE; TELESCOPE STRUCTURES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

CARBON FIBER; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; STEEL; STIFFNESS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

EID: 34548757986     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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