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spar cap
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STEEL SPAR CAP TO WOOD SPAR LOW COST
Good or bad idea? instead of carbon fiber spar caps on a wood spar what about a normalised carbon steel flat bar 100,000 psi yield. clean sand and epoxy onto wood spar. maybe a layer of glass over top of steel to help with seperation? more heavy than carbon fiber but lighter than wood alone...- dougwanderson
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- spar cap steel spar
- Replies: 51
- Forum: Aircraft Design / Aerodynamics / New Technology
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designing root fittings for carbon spar caps
Hello, I'm designing a 6m span wing for a 120 kilo takeoff weight. I'm designing to 6G positive 3G negative. Sketches are on electric car project (don't mind the name of the link, you can click through to the aircraft project). It's a high wing, strut braced halfway out, but the struts work...- dbonner
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- carbon fitment spar cap steel wing root
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Composites