May 2024 Issue

May

May 2024

Digital Edition
Aviation-specific battery system uses advanced composites to address electric, hybrid flight
Cover Story

Aviation-specific battery system uses advanced composites to address electric, hybrid flight

BOLDair’s composite enclosure, compression structures and thermal runaway management enables high-performance electric energy storage.

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Features

Featured articles from the May 2024 issue of CompositesWorld

Automated robotic NDT enhances capabilities for composites
Space

Automated robotic NDT enhances capabilities for composites

Kineco Kaman Composites India uses a bespoke Fill Accubot ultrasonic testing system to boost inspection efficiency and productivity.

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Composites industry activity meaningfully slowed contraction in March
Economics

Composites industry activity meaningfully slowed contraction in March

The GBI: Composites Fabricating still contracted in March, though it landed just one point shy of 50, which could eventually lead it into expansion territory.

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Creating a composite battery insert-stud solution for EV trucks
Automotive

Creating a composite battery insert-stud solution for EV trucks

Bossard worked with an OEM and Tier supplier team to meet tight electrical insulation and packaging tolerances while reducing tooling, molding and assembly costs.

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Damage tolerance testing of sandwich composites: The sandwich flexure-after-impact (FAI) test

Damage tolerance testing of sandwich composites: The sandwich flexure-after-impact (FAI) test

A second new ASTM-standardized test method assesses the damage tolerance of sandwich composites under flexural loading.

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Designing an infused, two-piece composite baseball bat
Application

Designing an infused, two-piece composite baseball bat

With its Icon BBCOR bat, Rawlings leveraged its experience in braided fabrics and RTM to create an optimized, higher-performance two-piece design.

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Industrializing additive manufacturing in the defense/aerospace sector
Feature

Industrializing additive manufacturing in the defense/aerospace sector

GA-ASI demonstrates a path forward for the use of additive technologies for composite tooling, flight-qualified parts.  

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Looking at composites through the lens of U.S. history
Editorial

Looking at composites through the lens of U.S. history

When you’re a tourist with a background in writing for manufacturing it’s impossible not to notice all of the ways in which composites have resulted in significant milestones in the U.S. — historically and in the present.  

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Airtech International Inc.
Airtech International Inc.
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