摘要 |
A curable prepreg comprising a layer of structural conductive fibres and curable thermosetting resin and comprising an open-structured metal-coated polymeric sheet. There may also be a stack of the prepregs with resin interleaf layers. The coating metal may be selected from silver, copper, nickel, gold, platinum, aluminium and mixtures thereof, but is preferably silver. There is also claimed a use of such a prepreg to increase through-thickness (z- direction) electrical conductivity of a cured laminate. The laminate has particularly useful application in protecting against lightning damage to aircraft bodies. |