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New Carbon Fiber Hinge Design Boosts Structure Stiffness and Resilience

DEStech Transactions on Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Property Analysis of Deployable Hinge Made of Carbon Fibre/Epoxy Shape Memory
Bao-Xian JIA, Ning Peng, Wenfeng Bian

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