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Truss Structures Made of Carbon-fibre-reinforced Plastic

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  1. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Jens Schäfer M. Sc. (Research Assistant in the Composites Division at the Institute for Textile Technology), Tobias Isenbügel B. Sc. (Masters Student) &  Thomas Gries (Head of the Institute for Textile Technology)

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Schäfer, J., Isenbügel, T. & Gries, T. Truss Structures Made of Carbon-fibre-reinforced Plastic. Lightweight des worldw 10, 36–39 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41777-017-0012-6

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