This paper presents a study of the folding of a new self-powered, self-latching tube hinge for deployable structures. This hinge is made by cutting three parallel slots in a thinwalled carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) tube, thus leaving three tape springs connecting the two ends of the tube.

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In this study, the scope of CFRP cables in cable-stayed bridges is studied by establishing a numerical model of a 1400-m span of the same. The mechanical properties and characteristics of CFRP stay cables and of a cable-stayed bridge with CFRP cables are here subjected to comprehensive analysis. The anomalies in the damping properties of free vibration, nonlinear parametric vibration and wind f...

this paper presents the results of analytical studies concerning the flexuralstrengthening of reinforced concrete beams by external bonding of high-strength lightweightcarbon fiber reinforced plastic (cfrp) plates to tension face of the beam. three groups of beamswere tested analytically and compared with existing experimental results. results of the numericalanalyses showed that, although addi...

Test results on carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic plates are presented, all of which had been used as semi-rigid fixation in a series of fractures of the middle third of the human tibia. Symptoms of pain experienced by the patients were found to be related to the stiffness of the plates and it is suggested that a stiffness of 2.0 newton-metres per degree is most suitable for this type of fixation...

The idea of thermal tomography is slicing a work piece for some in-depth layers which exhibit the distribution of thermal properties in materials by the analogy with X-ray tomography. Thermal tomography is based on the analysis of the surface temperature evolution which follows thermal stimulation of test samples. In this paper, some experimental results of applying the dynamic thermal tomograp...

This paper studies the fracture behaviour of unidirectional carbon fibre reinforced carbon matrix composites and its relation with the type of fibre-matrix interface developed in the composite. Model unidirectional carbon-carbon composites were prepared using the same type of fibre and different pitches as matrix precursors. These included both commercial pitches and synthesized in the laborato...