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  • Effect of Pitch-Based Carbon Fiber Stitching Density on the Conduction Welding Performance of CF/PEEK Composites

  • Min-Soo Joo*, Yeong-Deok Noh*, Dongyoung Shim*, Byeong-Su Kwak*†

  • * School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University

  • Pitch계 탄소섬유 stitching density에 따른 CF/PEEK 복합재의 전도 용접 성능 분석

  • 주민수* · 노영덕* · 심동영* · 곽병수*†

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Correspondence to

  • Byeong-Su Kwak

  • School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University

  • E-mail: bs.kwak@gnu.ac.kr