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Building the space elevator: lessons from biological design
One of the biggest perceived challenges in building megastructures, such as the space elevator, is the unavailability of materials with sufficient tensile strength. The presumed necessity of very strong materials stems from a design paradigm which requires structures to operate at a small fraction o...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6228488/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30333242 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0086 |