Original Article
  • Moisture Absorption and Strengths of Composite Skins cured on the Close Heated Mold

  • Kyung-Su Kim*, Hyeon-Seok Choe**, Byeong-Su Kwak*, Jin-Hwe Kweon*†

  • * School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University
    ** Department of Composite Structure & System, Korea Institute of Materials Science

  • 폐쇄형 가열 금형에서 경화된 복합재 외피의 수분흡수 및 강도특성

  • 김경수*·최현석**·곽병수*·권진회*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Jin-Hwe Kweon

  • School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University

  • E-mail: jhkweon@gnu.ac.kr