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Corrosion-resistant aramid fiber/thermoplastic liner gives new life to deteriorating steel subsea pipelines.

The Atlas military transport’s decade of development has lighted the path for Airbus wing development on the A350 and future programs.

Thermoplastic tapes are not new to composites, but they soon will join the primary aerostructures material palette and could be their future.

U.K. consortiums address durability, weight, cost of high-pressure tanks for hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicles.

Plant-based polyamides break high-cost/low-performance paradigm to meet the demands of a challenging Toyota underhood application.

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."

An "open tube" alternative to the solid-tube bike frame.

Glass-reinforced plastic artfully captures classic curves, crash-protects passengers and stunningly packages its maker’s high-performance but highly fuel-efficient diesel powertrain.

A look inside the increasingly well-equipped virtual toolbox for composite design, analysis, and manufacturing.

As the recession recedes, the demand for carbon fiber, and the supply to meet it, will exceed prerecession expectations.