August 2023 Issue
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August 2023
Digital Edition![Plant tour: Spirit AeroSystems, Belfast, Northern Ireland, U.K.](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/CW/2023-CW/0823-cw-PlantTour-SpiritBelfast-10.jpg;maxWidth=600;quality=70)
Features
Featured articles from the August 2023 issue of CompositesWorld
![Celebrating National Composites Week](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/cw/2023-cw/cw23ncwfb.jpg;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
Celebrating National Composites Week
August 21-25, 2023 is National Composites Week. This year’s theme is “Composites Are Now,” recognizing the ways composites are shaping the world today.
Read More![Composites enable massive wastewater infrastructure project](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/cw/2023-cw/0823-cw-fod-rpc-6a.jpg;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
Composites enable massive wastewater infrastructure project
To build complex drop shafts for New Zealand’s Central Interceptor project, RPC Technologies pushed the limits with glass and carbon fiber, vertical filament winding and UV-cure resins.
Read More![Composites GBI lost a little ground in June](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/cw/2023-cw/0823-cw-gbi-1-web1.png;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
Composites GBI lost a little ground in June
The GBI: Composites has contracted since April, just barely remaining within a two-point range of 50.
Read More![Composites manufacturing for general aviation aircraft](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/CW/2023-CW/0623-cw-feature-general-aviation-photo-4-icon-aircraft.jpg;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
Composites manufacturing for general aviation aircraft
General aviation, certified and experimental, has increasingly embraced composites over the decades, a path further driven by leveraged innovation in materials and processes and the evolving AAM market.
Read More![Infinite Composites: Type V tanks for space, hydrogen, automotive and more](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/CW/2023-CW/0623-cw-blog-infinitecomposites-boss.jpg;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
Infinite Composites: Type V tanks for space, hydrogen, automotive and more
After a decade of proving its linerless, weight-saving composite tanks with NASA and more than 30 aerospace companies, this CryoSphere pioneer is scaling for growth in commercial space and sustainable transportation on Earth.
Read More![Optimized approach to predict delamination failure in CFRTP structures](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/cw/2023-cw/0823-cw-predfailure-arrk-mitsui-fig1.jpg;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
Optimized approach to predict delamination failure in CFRTP structures
ARRK Engineering and Mitsui Chemicals improved delamination prediction accuracy to help optimize absorbed energy/failure load for an overmolded TAFNEX CF/PP UD tape bumper beam.
Read More![Paris Air Show 2023 highlights](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/cw/2023-cw/0723-cw-pas-main.jpeg;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
Paris Air Show 2023 highlights
The Paris Air Show, one of the largest aerospace trade shows in the world, returned for the first time since 2019 and proved that the global aviation industry industry is very much alive and kicking.
Read More![Recycling hydrogen tanks to produce automotive structural components](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/cw/2023-cw/0823-cw-application-voith-2.jpg;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
Recycling hydrogen tanks to produce automotive structural components
Voith Composites and partners develop recycling solutions for hydrogen storage tanks and manufacturing methods to produce automotive parts from the recycled materials.
Read More![The basics of composite drawing interpretation](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/cw/2023-cw/0823-cw-troubleshooter-fig2.png;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
The basics of composite drawing interpretation
Knowing the fundamentals for reading drawings — including master ply tables, ply definition diagrams and more — lays a foundation for proper composite design evaluation.
Read More![The lessons behind OceanGate](https://d2n4wb9orp1vta.cloudfront.net/cms/brand/cw/2023-cw/0823-cw-publishersperspective-oceangate-2019.jpg;maxWidth=400;quality=70)
The lessons behind OceanGate
Carbon fiber composites faced much criticism in the wake of the OceanGate submersible accident. CW’s publisher Jeff Sloan explains that it’s not that simple.
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