Ginger Gardiner

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Aerospace

Composite aeroengine dressing to wing driveshafts, SHM and more

For Sigma Precision Components (Hinckley, UK), composite pipe for jet engine dressing could be only the beginning.

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Infrastructure

CFRP adapters deliver high-quality printing at lower cost

Filament wound, carbon fiber/epoxy cylinders meet customer performance demands.

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Infrastructure

The end of delamination?

A spin-off from MIT's NECSTlab, N12 Technologies Inc. launches NanoStitch, the world's first vertically aligned CNT product via a continuous industrial process, which bridges adjacent CFRP plies, boosting interlaminar shear and increasing fatigue life by 100%.

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Out of Autoclave

New 250°F/120°C No Oven No Autoclave epoxy

Designed for room-temp infusion and filament winding with 2-hr no-heat-added cure or 15-30 min heated cure without post-cure for flexible processing of marine, industrial and energy structures.

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Mass Transit

New low-cost, high-temp resins

MG Resins offer a suite of properties and processing that could potentially revolutionize sectors of the composites industry.

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Optimizing composite aerostructures production

Israel Aerospace Industries ramps production while reducing costs and improving quality thanks to integrated optimization software.

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Pressure Vessels

Materials Sciences Corp.: Multifunctional composites

MSC draws on four decades of experience and computer modeling expertise to develop novel composite materials with the potential to make a big impact.

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Nanomaterials

CNT-enhanced prepregs: commercial & production-capable

N12 Technologies’ NanoStitch and Surface Layer System (SLS) products are part of a new generation of nanomaterials aimed at delivering macro-level benefits in products produced at commercial scale.

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Infusion

Report from IBEX 2015

As always, IBEX supplied new products, processes and education, not only to boatbuilders, but to the composites industry overall.

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Out of Autoclave

Super "skinny" water skiff

Hell’s Bay Boatworks’ (Titusville, FL, US) latest design for a sportfishing customer does an unprecedented job of shaving weight and boosting toughness of flatboats for shallow-water operation.

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Carbon Fibers

Reformable composite equestrian saddle

This carbon fiber/polyethylene terephthalate (PET) saddle tree features an intralaminate heating element that enables horse owners to reconfigure saddle shapes as horses grow, greatly reducing long-term saddle-fitting costs.

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Carbon Fibers

AVANCO: Driving the industrialization of CFRP structures

The AVANCO Group is producing high-quality CFRP parts into a wide array of applications from six production facilities in Germany and the US.

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