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Aerospace

Personal aircraft and composites at EAA AirVenture 2018

Many of the aircraft at the AirVenture 2018 show in July 2018 were composites-intensive and represent innovative designs and concepts.

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Aerospace

Advancing composites through virtual and augmented reality

A review of technologies that are bridging the technical divide between the virtual world of design and simulation, and the real-world of composites manufacturing and repair.

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Defense

Composites Index breaks out of slowing growth trend

The GBI: Composites Fabricating index broke out of its three-month trend of slowing growth, increasing to 57.7 in August.

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Mass Transit

A clean technology for clean, zero-emissions buses

Monocoque composite body designed to support all bus loads.

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Sustainability

Glass transition temperature testing of composites

The glass transition temperature of polymer matrix composites (PMCs) is determined by a series of tests at increasing temperatures.

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IACMI

Composites in infrastructure: IMAGINE that!

At the beginning of August, the Innovative Materials for America’s Growth and Infrastructure Newly Expanded (IMAGINE) Act was introduced to encourage research and use of innovative materials in infrastructure.

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Aerospace

Automotive tipping point?

CW Editor Jeff Sloan predicts a tipping point for autocomposites after attending this year’s Society of Plastics Engineers’ Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition (SPE ACCE).

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Aerospace

Making prepreg tape more accessible

Cygnet Texkimp’s new slitter-spooler offers economical production of high-quality tapes and vertical integration for manufacturers to access a much wider market.

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Work In Progress

High strain composites for satellite applications

Carbon fiber takes deployable satellite mechanisms to new heights.

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CAMX

CAMX 2018 preview: Gerber Technology

Gerber Technology (Tolland, CT, US), Booth F29, is demonstrating its AccuMark and CutWorks software platforms, as well as a GERBERcutter Z1 cutting table equipped with a patented Pivex knife.

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Molds/Tools

CAMX 2018 preview: Airtech

Airtech International Inc. (Huntington Beach, CA, US) is introducing several new products this year in Booth V3. 

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CAMX

Things to do in Dallas

Dallas is most famous for its oil and gas legacy, and the historical landscape of the “wild, wild West” with its big cattle ranches, but this thriving and exciting city offers a wealth of entertainment, cuisine and culture as the ninth most populous metropolitan area in the United States.

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