Composites Basics

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How to help CW help you and our audience

It’s more important than ever that you communicate with us about your company’s new products, new technologies, expansions and other activities.

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Woven fabrics: The basics

For composite applications requiring more than one fiber orientation, woven fabrics can be useful. This primer outlines the basics of woven fabrics and different types.

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Vacuum bagging: The basics

A primer on the reasons to use vacuum bagging in composite part manufacture, and the basics of how to do it

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Core

Core materials: The basics

Core materials available for composite sandwich structures range from paper, aluminum and thermoplastic honeycomb cores to foams and more.

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Aramid fiber: The basics

Aramid fiber is a manmade organic polymer (an aromatic polyamide) produced by spinning a solid fiber from a liquid chemical blend. The fibers offer high strength among other properties.

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Resins

Polyester resins: The basics

Polyester resins are widely used resin systems. Learn more about their chemical makeup and how they are used in the composites industry.

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Carbon Fibers

Addcomposites' virtual demo on how to make an AFP composite laminate

Readers are walked through how to program and operate the AFP-XS plug and play system.

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CAMX

Composites 101: Tutorials at CAMX

While CAMX generally holds its educational tutorial sessions on Monday before the show opens, this year a second slate of sessions will be held today.

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Automotive

Webinar: Building a Case for Automated Composite Lay-up

CompositesWorld is presenting a free CGTech sponsored webinar on Thursday June 21, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, on automated composite lay-up.

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Out of Autoclave

Compression molding: New materials and markets

From multifunctional aircraft interiors to compounds using continuous fabrics to the growing use of recycled carbon fiber – compression molding offers new opportunities.

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