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Hurricane And Tornado Protection Offered By In-home Shelter
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (Wilmington, Del., U.S.A.) has introduced a new residential protection product called StormRoom, for shelter from hurricanes and tornados. The StormRoom is designed to withstand wind speeds as high as 250 mph and to deflect debris, such as flying wood timbers, moving at 100 mph. Since
Read MoreComposites Aboard High-Speed Trains
Greater demand for weight reduction and aerodynamics put railcar manufacturers on track to greater and more extensive use of composites.
Read MoreDesigning-in Corrosion Resistance
The most cost-effective way to prevent corrosion is to select corrosion-resistant materials.
Read MoreEMCs provide tougher alternative to shape-memory alloys and plastics
Composites Technology Development Inc. (CTD, Lafayette, Colo., U.S.A.) has developed TEMBO Shape Memory Polymers, elastic memory composites (EMCs) that are less dense and about one-fifth the weight of shape-memory metal alloys but deliver greater strength than other shape-memory plastics. "Most people think of
Read MoreAnisotropic wind blade design expected to reduce wind-energy costs
Deliberately unbalanced laminate produces smoother power input from adaptive wind blades
Read MoreAre high-temp thermosets ready to go commercial?
Developed for the U.S. military, these high-performance matrices are branching out into wider use.
Read MoreComposite speed sailboat readied to break 50-knot barrier
Sailrocket (Bitterne Manor, Southampton, U.K.) is using new design concepts and composites to make its Sailrocket speed sailboat, in hopes of breaking the existing speed record of 46.25 knots (the goal is 50 knots). Its unique counterfoil design bypasses the stability problems encountered by monohulls and multihulls.
Read MoreAbrasive machining methods for composites
Cutting, routing and drilling are important post-processing steps for cured composite parts.
Read MoreRacing Veteran Fine-tunes Classic Competitive Concept
Hand layup of reinforced epoxy yields hybrid luxury powerboat/offshore racer.
Read MoreThe Basics Of Boat Design
Naval architects reveal design, tooling and material selection guidelines for a new sportfishing powerboat.
Read MoreRoof Module Reflects Well On Paintless Composites
Unique long-fiber injection process yields a paintless high-gloss finish, 20 percent weight reduction and improved safety -- all in one shot.
Read MoreSprayable Core Material Doubles As Marine Tooling Putty
A derivative of its barrier coat and core materials, a specially formulated syntactic from ITW SprayCore (Clearwater, Fla., U.S.A.) now serves as the tooling surface for Vectorworks Marine Inc.'s (Titusville, Fla., U.S.A.) new toolmaking "shortcut" called Limited Production Tooling (LPT). Production timeframes and
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