Ginger Gardiner

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Construction

Structural work of art

Composites fabricator uses an innovative molding approach and digital techniques to actualize architect’s customized residential stairway.

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Consumer

CW Ideas in Action

Ideas are just ideas until someone does the hard work of putting them into action and seeing results. CW's editors, therefore, inaugurate an annual review of Ideas in Action, celebrating a handful of hot concepts that could make those who conceived them "household names."

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Marine

Infused trimaran takes to the seas

French shipyard CMN has released a video showing the Ocean Eagle 43 infused epoxy trimaran in action.

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Aerospace

Reducing manufacturing cost via RTM

Airbus Bremen aims to replace dozens of prepreg components and assembly operations with a unitized multispar composite flap molded in a one-shot process.

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RTM

CMF project's process combines prepreg with RTM

Composite Multispar Flap (CMF) project at Airbus  Bremen demonstrates SQRTM process for producing aircraft flaps

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Autoclave

Classic harps in carbon fiber

Lever and pedal models less cumbersome, still classy.

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Out of Autoclave

New technologies and companies at CAMX 2015

Final rundown of “finds” from CAMX, from technology for cutting composites and joining CFRP to metal for hybrid parts to companies offering training, textiles and NDT.

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Automotive

Increased competition from metals

Boeing and Airbus are developing new, lightweight, corrosion-resistant metals that are targeting composites' traditional niche in the material sphere.

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Ketones

CAMX 2015: Eyecatchers

A selection of parts, processes and new players from the exhibit floor as well some interesting developments from the technical sessions.

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Aerospace

Multifunctional composites: past, present and future

Dr. Les Lee at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Dr. James Thomas at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory give insights into the history of multifunctional composites, the drivers for their development and where they are headed.

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CAMX

Aerocomposites: The move to multifunctionality

Designers envision aircraft components that do more than bear structural loads, but must first confront great complexities to actualize greater functional efficiency.

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Aerospace

Re-dressing aeroengines with composite pipes

Sigma Lite braided carbon fiber/thermoplastic pipe cuts jet engine weight yet meets challenging design and manufacturing requirements.

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Composite raw materials
Alpha’s Premier ESR®
Quickly Make Molds, Tools and Fixtures
prepeg and slit tape products