Design features of British Railways passenger cars in which coach body is made of sandwich construction of reinforced plastic faces with polyurethane foam as core; response to stresses, rigidity, and decrease in weight are most important advantage of this type of construction; roofs are molded in steel mold; molding of core blocks and laminating of glass-reinforced panels to cores are described.
Monocoque construction in transport
Plastics Inst -- Trans
Plastics Institute -- Transactions ; 32 , n 101
1964
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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