{"id":149071,"date":"2026-04-03T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149071"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T02:00:10","slug":"could-chinas-metal-like-composite-make-drones-planes-and-rockets-26-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149071","title":{"rendered":"Could China\u2019s metal-like composite make drones, planes and rockets 26% stronger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChallenging six decades of convention, Chinese scientists have proposed a new composite material manufacturing method that could improve the strength and reliability of structures used in drones, aircraft and spacecraft.<br \/>\nBy introducing an advance in the so-called balanced lay-up approach \u2013 a method of stacking fibre layers symmetrically and in opposing angles to minimise internal stresses \u2013 the research team reported strength gains of up to 26 per cent.<br \/>\nIt also led to a 13 per cent improvement&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3348762\/could-chinas-metal-composite-make-drones-planes-and-rockets-26-stronger?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChallenging six decades of convention, Chinese scientists have proposed a new composite material manufacturing method that could improve the strength and reliability of structures&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}