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A structural core consisting of upper and lower sheets of a fiberglas or like material. Each sheet defines parallel rows of raised, tetrahedronal-shaped, hollow knobs. The upper sheet is inverted over the lower one so that the edges of the tetrahedrons abut whereby all tetrahedrons on the bottom sheet point up and all tetrahedrons on the upper sheet point down in alternating sequence along the rows. Each sheet is formed by placing it over a male mold having upstanding tetrahedron shaped raised knobs, folding the sheet between the tetrahedrons to produce puckers, applying bands in the fold lines to hold the sheet on the male mold, coating the sheet with an epoxy resin, cutting the bands and removing them, inverting a female mold over the male mold and applying pressure thereto, allowing the resin to cure, then removing the sheet from the molds. The core is then formed by coating all edges of the tetrahedrons on both sheets with a resin-type bonding material, inverting the upper sheet and nesting it in the lower sheet so that the edges of the upper tetrahedrons abut the edges of the lower tetrahedrons and then bonded together, the core is then allowed to cure.
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