Composite, lightweight sacrificial tip with graphite designed reduces lightning-strike damage to composite parts of aircraft and dissipates harmful electrical energy. Device consists of slender composite rod fabricated from highly-conductive unidirectional reinforcing fibers in matrix material. Rods strategically installed in trailing edges of aircraft wings, tails, winglets, control surfaces, and rearward-most portion of aft fuselage.
Composite Lightning Rods for Aircraft
NASA Tech Briefs ; 10 , 4
1986-07-01
Sonstige
Keine Angabe
Englisch
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