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Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly
Overall trends calling for less weight are posing new challenges for the fasteners used in airplanes, Mars rovers, and lunar landers. Whether fasteners connect carbon composites and metals in wing structures or join landing gear components, they must reliably keep together millions of parts in a single craft, subject to huge loads and stresses. (…)
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