Development of glass fiber reinforced plastic poles for transmission and distribution lines

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 850-858

  Ibrahim, Sherif ^a   Polyzois, Dimos ^a   Hassan, Sherif K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fiber reinforced plastics; Filament winding; Transmission and distribution poles

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046528754     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/l99-089     Document Type: Article

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