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AWWA CIPP classifications
The American Water Works Assn. (AWWA, Denver, Colo.) divides cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) into four classes.
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Custom-engineered composite performance yacht sails
North Sails introduces 3Di materials and process for structural composite sails.
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Cathedral art: Fiberglass molds shape unfinished masterpiece
The builders of Sagrada Família Cathedral, one of architecture’s exceptional marvels, use fiberglass molds to realize architect Antoni Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece.
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Wind over deep water
Research into floating wind turbine systems promises to expand composites to towers and platforms.
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Mae West: Pipe dream in Munich
Unique fiber architecture and mandrel-less filament winding process make “impossible” rotational paraboloid sculpture possible in carbon composites.
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Medical applications: A healthy market
Composites make advances in devices for medical diagnosis and treatments that promote healing and help return patients to active lives.
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Hotel wrap: Curvilinear pultrusions
Airport hotel’s striking wraparound roofline made possible, durable and affordable with pultruded flat panels and profiled support structures.
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New twist in cycling: A truss bikers can trust
An "open tube" alternative to the solid-tube bike frame.
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Regional buses boost CFRP in alternative energy
Diesel-to-fuel-cell bus conversions signal potential niche for composites in public transit powertrains.
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Watching a half-century of progress in composites
Looking back on my experience in the composites industry, from my first job in 1961 as a free-lance secretary to Brandt Goldsworthy to my last job as a free-lance writer for Composites Technology and High Performance Composites, gives me an uncommon perspective.
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Composites stabilize space-based telescope
Composite Primary Mirror Backplane Support Structure to hold James Webb Space Telescope’s thermal stability within extremely tight 38-nm dimensional tolerance.
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Inside Manufacturing: CIPP Lights Way in Buried Pipe Repair
Spiral-wound, UV-curable fiberglass CIPP bests competitors and bears loads in “trenchless” wastewater pipe rehabilitation project.
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