Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Infusion 17 Feb 2016

Resin infusion: Taking off?

Boeing Aerostructures Australia leads large-scale development of resin infusion as an industrial process.

ATL/AFP 10 Feb 2016

Composites help Bell V-280 toward Future Vertical Lift

Bell’s design for future military helicopter uses hybrid metal-composite construction and Large Cell Carbon Core technology for unitized wing.

Filament Winding 8 Feb 2016

Automated filament winding enables competitive composite cylinders

Carefully controlled, robust, volume processes offer fabricators of Class IV LPG/CNG tanks a means to meet increasing demand in Europe and Asia.

Molds/Tools 8 Feb 2016

Aircraft composites repair moves toward maturity

New technologies seek to address the challenges MROs will increasingly face in the age of commercial airliners with composite airframes.

Adhesives 5 Feb 2016

“Smart tooling” cuts time and risk for complex unitized composite structures production

One-piece bladder tooling helps to actualize NASA/Boeing’s revolutionary fluted core design for next-gen cryogenic fuel tank skirt.

Adhesives 1 Feb 2016

Inflexion technology: complex composites without fasteners

Spirit AeroSystems has developed production methods using rigid-flexible tooling for more affordable unitized composite aerostructures.

Carbon Fibers 29 Jan 2016

Recycled carbon fiber proves its potential for aircraft interiors

An Airbus-led team characterizes RCF veils and shows their ability to best glass fiber composite sidewalls in cost, weight and surface finish.

Materials Testing 28 Jan 2016

Fiber patch preforms help tailor kiteboard performance

Automated means for laying fiber only where needed offers new potential to fine-tune torsional stiffness and flexibility to board and rider styles.

Adhesives 28 Jan 2016

Composite stars brighten the holidays

Light, durable design pleases eyes and budget.

Infusion 28 Jan 2016

Disruptive composite infrastructure

FiberCore Europe claims the "Holy Grail" of delamination-resistant FRP bridge and infrastructure components with its patented InfraCore technology.

Carbon Fibers 2 Jan 2016

Wet compression molding

Automated process cuts cycle time and cost for CFRP parts with potential for 65% fiber volume via Dynamic Fluid Compression Molding variant.

Molds/Tools 1 Jan 2016

Turnkey manufacturing systems: Part-per-minute thermoplastic composites

Pinette Emidecau Industries’ (PEI, Chalon-sur-Saône, France) leads a consortium of providers that are collaborating on the Quilted Stratum Process (QSP), a means to accelerate thermoplastic composites processing in the auto industry.