Tertiary recycling of cured composite aircraft parts

Technical Paper - Society of Manufacturing Engineers. EM

Volumn 97, Issue 110, 1997, Pages

  Allred, R E ^a   Doak, T J ^a   Coons, A B ^a   Newmeister, G G ^b   Cochran, R C ^b  

^a ADHERENT TECHNOLOGIES INC   (United States)

^b NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon Fibers; Carbon Epoxy; Catalytic Conversion; Recycling; Surface Chemistry; Tensile Strength

Indexed keywords

EID: 5244230917     PISSN: 01611852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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