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Literature Review Struts are being used in various industries since structures were started being built thousands of years ago Composites were discovered in the 1960 s and ever since engineers and researchers are trying to move towards manufacturing lightweight composite structures However its only in the last few decades that the engineers have been paying detail to composites due to the various advantages that are associated with composite materials The high cost of manufacturing of composites limits it to a few industries Namely the automotive aerospace and space sector NASA has a continuing interest in both improving and experimentally verifying the load carrying capability of these types of structural components to support the goal of designing high performance lightweight aerospace structures KC Wu et al 2011 Furthermore since the LATP process is relatively new there has been little to no work done on manufacturing lightweight thermoplastic composite struts using this process The literature reviewed in the following sections will cover a brief overview of struts across the industries struts made from composites history and advantages of composites and the LATP process Brief overview of struts A strut when designed for a certain purpose should be able to withstand all forces that are applied to it Moreover a strut should be designed and built to cope with natural phenomena such as wind power rain or phenomena such as solar irradiance and high temperatures in space
