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A review of the scope for high performance composite plastics materials within the railway industry (TN-PDU-1)

Last updated on 23 April 2013 10:05

Potential applications for high performance fibre reinforced plastics (FRP) as lightweight structural materials are reviewed. Present use of FRP as structural materials is small in the railway industry, and is almost exclusively in the form of glass reinforced plastics (GRP). Applications for composites based on carbon fibres (CFRP)...

Author(s): Batchelor J.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1977

United Kingdom

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