{"id":726160,"date":"2022-06-08T04:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=726160"},"modified":"2022-06-08T04:08:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T08:08:00","slug":"tailor-made-composites-for-tougher-space-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=726160","title":{"rendered":"Tailor-made composites for tougher space structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Rapid_tow_shearing_card_full.gif\" alt=\"Rapid tow shearing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An ESA-led project constructed a test cylinder using a novel method of laying down carbon fibre, then tested it to buckling point within a crushing machine that subjected it to the equivalent of 10 tons of force. The cylinder met its predicted specifications perfectly, outperforming a traditionally-made equivalent using the same constituent materials. The company involved, <a href=\"https:\/\/icomat.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iCOMAT<\/a> in the UK, has now been shortlisted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeccomposites.com\/press\/the-2022-jec-composites-innovation-awards-winners-have-been-named\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2022 JEC World Composites Innovation Award<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 recognised as one of the year\u2019s global top three main innovations in the field of aerospace composites.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Tailor-made_composites_for_tougher_space_structures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tailor-made composites for tougher space structures<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ESA-led project constructed a test cylinder using a novel method of laying down carbon fibre, then tested it to buckling point within a crushing machine that subjected it to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":726161,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/726161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}