May 2014 Issue

May

May 2014

Composites carry the Curiosity rover to a safe Mars landing
Cover Story

Composites carry the Curiosity rover to a safe Mars landing

From launch to touchdown, composites performed in flight and stuck the landing!

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Features

Featured articles from the May 2014 issue of CompositesWorld

3D Printing continuous carbon fiber composites?
Aerospace

3D Printing continuous carbon fiber composites?

Additive manufacturing startup MarkForged aims to make it happen and is already marketing systems.

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Demonstration software modeling exercise aids Taiwan’s yachtbuilding community
Marine

Demonstration software modeling exercise aids Taiwan’s yachtbuilding community

Ray Tsai, technical director of Simutech Solution Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan) and colleagues develop a demonstration modeling exercise for Taiwanese motoryacht builders.

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Faster is better, but collaborative manufacturing is essential
Out of Autoclave

Faster is better, but collaborative manufacturing is essential

Guest columnist Dale Brosius, president of Dayton, Ohio-based Quickstep Composites, the U.S. subsidiary of Australia-based Quickstep Technologies (Bankstown Airport, New South Wales), points out two key trends evident at JEC Europe 2014.

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JEC Europe 2014 Review
Aerospace

JEC Europe 2014 Review

The composites world met again in Paris, vibrant, stronger, and more forward-looking than ever before.

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Machining update: One-shot dry drilling of stacked materials

Machining update: One-shot dry drilling of stacked materials

Tool design innovations tighten tolerances and cut costs for those who drill composite-metal assemblies.

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Reversed loading flexural fatigue

Reversed loading flexural fatigue

Dr. Donald F. Adams, owner and president of Wyoming Test Fixtures (Salt Lake City, Utah) discusses reverse loading flexural fatigue testing and fixture design.

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SAMPE Europe 2014 Review
Sustainability

SAMPE Europe 2014 Review

SAMPE Europe’s 35th International Conference (SEICO 14) was also its last. Beginning in 2015, SAMPE Europe will henceforth organize one large annual conference, combining its SEICO and SETEC events into a multitrack multidisciplinary conference and exhibition.

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Hi-Temp Resins

SAMPE Tech Seattle 2014 at a glance

A short compilation of SAMPE Tech Seattle 2014 program highlights.

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SAMPE Tech Seattle 2014 Preview
Wind/Energy

SAMPE Tech Seattle 2014 Preview

The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering’s annual fall Tech conference is now a spring event.

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The Learjet 85: Large step out of the autoclave
Editorial

The Learjet 85: Large step out of the autoclave

HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan examines the significance of the Bombardier Learjet 85’s first flight.

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VX Aerospace: Small company, big performance
Aerospace

VX Aerospace: Small company, big performance

Innovative design, OOA manufacturing and C-PLY laminate construction produce “big fabricator” aerostructures in fewer steps at low cost.

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