Ginger Gardiner

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Automotive

Carbon fiber lightens medical laser chassis

Reduced weight shortens surgical and diagnostic procedures.

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Medical

Three new 3D printing technologies for composites

Fiber-reinforced composite tooling, ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) and woven fiber composites are all now the realm of 3D printing.

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Braiding

Highlights from 10th Intl. CFK Valley Stade Convention 2016

Annual conference featured new carbon composite technologies.

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3D printed composite parts provide solution for UAV

New technology uses long carbon fibers to boost strength and stiffness for small yet high-performance aircraft.

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Ketones

Nanocomp Technologies Inc., Merrimack, NH, US

Its millimeter-length macro CNTs are finally realizing their commercial composites potential, with spacecraft applications leading the way.

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Glass Fibers

Controlled fragmentation of multimaterial fibers via cold polymer drawing

Researcher unlocks nanoscale means of controlling breakage in materials, opens door to next-generation manufacturing.

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Aerospace

Airbus Helicopters verify performance of 410km/h Clean Sky 2 demonstrator

X3-based, compound VTOL airframe configuration nears final design but exact use of composites yet to be detailed

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Space

Precision design for deployable space structures

Enabling SMAP mission success, unprecedented design requirements were deftly managed using composites in the largest unfurling and rotating reflector to date.

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Glass Fibers

Converting the structural chassis to composites

Germany’s largest producer of GRP leaf springs for cars and trucks broadens its product range to CFRP stabilizer bars, which cut weight 50% vs. steel.

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Carbon Fibers

Ex-Toray executive joins Carbon Conversions

Keith Graham, previously with Toray Carbon Fibers America, will lead business development at CC

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Core

Orthopedics: Carbon foam fosters bone growth

The Center of Innovation for Biomaterials in Orthopedic Research (CIBOR) at the National Institute for Aviation Research (Wichita, KS, US) has two patents on the use of carbon foam as a bone-graft material to improve success in orthopedic implants.

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Glass Fibers

Taking the hit without added weight

High-modulus polypropylene (HMPP) fiber hybrids graduate from tennis to ... tornados!

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