CW Blog
The styrene puzzle
CT editor-in-chief outlines two major challenges posed by the recent listing of styrene in the U.S. National Toxicology Program's 12th Report on Carcinogens.
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COMPOSITES 2012 Preview
The ACMA’s annual composites industry exhibition focuses on future opportunities.
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New catamaran benefits from structural adhesives, vacuum infusion
Vacuum infusion, SAN sandwich foam cores and structural adhesives help reduce the weight of Mattia's high-performance catamaran yacht by 2,000 kg.
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CompositesWorld Investment Forum 2011 Highlights
When CIF conferees gathered, the subject was capital (its lack) and the prescription was scale up.
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Material deformation and recovery test methods
Dr. Donald F. Adams (Wyoming Test Fixtures Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah) reviews ways and means to quantify composite material deformation and recovery.
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The Plane in Spain
Site tours provide a rare glimpse into the Iberian Peninsula’s aerospace composites sector, with a special focus on Airbus’ activities at Illescas.
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SAMPE Tech 2011 in Texas
The Society’s annual fall gathering fills an exhibition hall this year nearly as big as the host state.
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Automotive evolution or real revolution?
HPC's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan asks, Are efforts by BMW and GM to put carbon composites in cars a harbinger of things to come, as we hope, or flashes in the pan?
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Airbus A350 Update: BRaF & FPP
EADS Innovation Works pursues qualification of Braided Frames for the A350-1000 fuselage and develops Fiber Patch Preforming for complex local reinforcements.
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Reinforced engineered polymer selected for cargo door fastener
On a major new commercial aircraft program, self-fixturing nut-plates provided by Click Bond (Carson City, Nev.) eliminate the need for special tools, clamps and drills, expediting the process of installing attachment bracket hardware.
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Spread-tow fabric secures ultralight aircraft’s weight goal
Shark Aero (Hlboké, Slovak Republic) designed its composite-airframed, single-seat prototype ultralight aircraft (ULA), the Shark UL, with spread-tow carbon fiber woven fabrics to reduce weight.
Read MoreMilling chuck
Machine tooling manufacturer Nikken Kosakusho Europe Ltd. has introduced the X-Treme line of milling chucks, designed specifically for aerospace applications.
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