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Old 23rd Jul 2013, 21:12
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Maybe twice as much as aluminium, I am not sure about type of resin:

Aluminium 22.2 . 10-6 m/mK
Epoxy, castings resins & compounds, unfilled 55 . 10-6 m/mK
Is 'unfilled resin' the right number to use? I thought carbon composite is much better than that - because of the fiber, optical tables made of it have a COE typically 1/10th that of steel for instance, so I thought the number is lower than Al, not higher.

The hugely dominant effect is flexure in flight, have you seen the wings on takeoff?
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