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The Use of Isotropic Property of Weightlessness for Advanced Composite Materials Production in the Conditions of Short-Term Weightlessness

  1. Michael Shoikhedbrod

Abstract

The use of the isotropic property of weightlessness for the production of advanced composite materials, in contrast to existing production methods, for example on polymer composite materials: pressing (direct, casting, profile); injection molding (casting, intrusion, centrifugal molding, autoclaving); contact molding; winding; vacuum forming and blow molding, which do not allow achieving the main goal of the production of advanced composite materials with a base (matrix) filled by uniformly distributed filler, permits to achieve this goal by using inertial force in conditions of short-term weightlessness and to practically obtain advanced composite materials with high strength and rigidity. The paper presents a new method for the production of advanced composite materials, which uses the isotropic property of weightlessness and the action of inertial force under conditions of short-term weightlessness on a specially designed ampoule.

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