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Proving thermoplastic composites match carbon fiber/epoxy performance in road bikes

CDCQ, LxSim, Addcomp and Argon 18 collaborate to optimize a carbon fiber/PA6 bike seat post, democratizing AFP and demonstrating materials and process for future designs and production.

ESA collaboration brings Altair software to aerospace, space startups

Access to Altair simulation, AI and data analytics solutions and consulting options to ESA Partnership Initiative for Commercialisation (EPIC) organizations aims to diversify, support aerospace companies.

Altair announces 12th annual Enlighten Award winners

Companies like Syensqo, Weav3D, Toyota, CompositeEdge and Teijin Automotive Technologies are recognized for their composites-forward approaches to more sustainable, energy-efficient automotive efforts.

Optimizing robotic winding of composite tanks and pipes

Pioneer in mandrel-based reinforced rubber and composite products, TANIQ offers TaniqWindPro software and robotic winding expertise for composite pressure vessels and more.

Innovation Award finalists revealed for JEC World 2024

Returning to the international composites trade show are the Innovation Awards, representing up to 33 finalists in 11 categories that highlight composites innovation excellence and fruitful collaborations.

Altair high-performance computing, cloud platform receives upgrades

Altair is upgrading its HPCWorks platform with tools and integrations that simplify resource, workload and workflow management as well as reporting.

Composite sidewall cover expands options for fire-safe rail components

R&D project by CG Rail explores use of carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastics and recycled manufacturing scrap to meet fire safety, weight and volume targets.

Composite tension leaf springs: Available for trucks at last

Tension leaf springs with progressive spring rates meet the demanding needs of truck suspensions.

CW presents "CW Tech Days: Thermoplastics for large structures"

Attend this May 18th interactive webinar sponsored by Altair, Mitsubishi Chemical Group, Toray and Collins Aerospace which will explore the materials and processing technologies that are enabling the transition into thermoplastics.

Airbus Commercial selects Altair SimSolid in ZEROe project

Altair SimSolid simulation technology will streamline Airbus teams in their design, development and engineering of the zero-emissions ZEROe concept aircraft.

People in Composites: November 2022

New hires, appointments and changes in executive leadership have been announced by Wickert, Michelman, Altair, Fortify, KraussMaffei and the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA).

Altair announces winners of 10th annual Enlighten Award

Ford, Shiloh Industries, General Motors, Toyota, BASF, L&L Products, Nemak and McMaster University are among some of the winners creating a more sustainable, lightweight future.

Upcoming CW Tech Days webinar assesses virtual testing, qualification for composite structures

CW Tech Days: Design, Simulation and Testing Technologies for Next-Gen Composite Structures will be held April 21, 2022, and will assess design, simulation, failure analysis, digital twins and more.

Plant tour: Victrex Composites Solutions, Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.

De-risking thermoplastic composites at industrial scale via hybrid overmolding.

Altair forms consortium to support product design and manufacture

The Altair Material Data Center provides a vast array of metal, plastic and composite material properties for tasks such as virtual prototyping and simulation.

Altair acquires structural analysis and design software, S-FRAME Software

The platform, capable of evaluating a composite, steel, concrete or mass timber structure’s ability to withstand external loads, strengthens and accelerates Altair’s architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) footprint.

Altair's 9th Enlighten Award winners feature vehicle lightweighting, sustainability

Annual award honors advancements in reducing the carbon footprint, mitigating water and energy consumption, promoting material reuse and recycling and applying composites for lightweighting.

Challenges, opportunities when designing for fiber-reinforced AM

Bridging the gap between as-designed and as-made, and where do you put the fiber?

Reprocessable, repairable and recyclable epoxy resins for composites

CIDETEC matures 3R resins for aerospace applications via AIRPOXY program.

Altair Enlighten Award opens for submissions

Ninth annual international award showcases innovation in automotive lightweighting and sustainability. Entries due by May 31, 2021.

Altair Inspire Mold simulates injection molding process to optimize manufacturability

Inspire Mold can evaluate manufacturability of new components at the outset of development, complete design iterations faster, reduce cost and other optimization features.

Altair database center offers comprehensive material information

The Altair Material Database Center contain thousands of high-quality materials including polymers, metals and composites, directly connected to Altair’s and other major solvers.

Altair named official supplier for Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli team

With the 36th America’s Cup yacht race approaching, Altair’s design platform has enabled a systematic and detailed approach to composite optimization for the racing team’s boat.

Next-generation composites qualification

Fully digital qualification hasn’t yet arrived, but simulation and analysis software continue to evolve and work together with physical testing practices.

Altair acquires M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH

Integration of M-Base’s leadership in plastics material data and technology will enable Altair to offer most comprehensive, high-fidelity plastics database on the market.

Composites feature in Altair’s 8th Annual Enlighten Awards

Recognized jointly with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), winners represent the world’s best initiatives to reduce vehicle weight and meet emissions targets.

Altair releases major software update to expand user solutions

The update enables accelerated innovation and targets design simulation and data analytics.

AnalySwift launches VABS software on Altair Partner Alliance platform

VABS software enables cost-effective simulation for composite rotor blades, tubes and other slender composite structures.

Composites suppliers, fabricators respond to coronavirus

Companies across the composites industry supply chain share how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their businesses, and how they are available to help.

Altair highlights design simulation and optimization software

Altair is presenting its methods and solutions for design, optimization and simulation of composite structures and materials.

Altair acquires newFASANT

newFASANT’s analysis software plugs into existing Altair solutions and expands offerings in areas like antenna design and placement, radome analysis and more.

Overmolded hybrid parts open new composites markets

A process that combines continuous carbon fiber-reinforced PAEK with chopped fiber/PEEK overmolding is making inroads in the aerospace market. Parts that previously could not be produced cost-effectively from composites can now be made at less cost than their metal counterparts.

National Composites Week takes place Aug. 26-30

Each day features a different theme celebrating the composites manufacturing industry.

Skeleton design enables more competitive composite autostructures

New approach combines thermoplastic pultrusions with injection overmolding in a two-step, 75-second process.

Design engineering of tailored preforms

Tailored preforming has opened new doors in composites fabrication, but designing for it requires tools that understand and work with this complex process.

Diehl Aviation selects Altair as preferred strategic CAE supplier

According to the agreement, Altair’s computer-aided engineering (CAE) software will be Diehl Aviation’s preferred solver for at least three years.

JEC World 2019 Preview

The JEC World trade show and conference, the largest composites event in the world, will be held at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, March 12-14, 2019.

Thermoplastic door a first for automotive composites

A team of automotive researchers are engaged in a four-year project with goals of building a lighter, 100% recyclable, carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic door.

People in Composites – January 2019

CW’s monthly roundup of people news in the composites industry.

Altair announces SIMSOLID acquisition

SIMSOLID works on full-fidelity CAD assemblies for structural simulation without geometry simplification, cleanup or meshing.

Safe cycling: Keys to composite bike design integrity

Steps bike designers and manufacturers must take to keep high-performance carbon fiber bikes safe, upright and on the road or trial.

New licensing model offers access to Altair's solidThinking software suite and cloud resources

solidThinking Units (sTUs) will enable small and midsize business (SMB) customers and the design engineering community to drive product innovation with simulation.

Altair launches startup program

The global program offers preferential pricing to startups for its simulation-driven design, computer-aided engineering, cloud computing and Internet of Things software solutions.

Teaming to define what automotive CFRP could be

Ford and Magna explore a high-volume chassis front subframe build from co-molded chopped fiber and noncrimp fabric SMC.

Tour de France and bicycles: a showcase for composites

Senior editor Sara Black offers a round up of CW’s reporting over the years about composite bikes and the design efforts and complex materials that go into them.

Composites Pavilion at AIA 2018

New composite products for architecture/construction and student designs innovate how composites can be used.

Webinar: Virtual Composite Design–A Predictive Approach using Altair HyperWorks

CompositesWorld is presenting a free Altair sponsored webinar on Wednesday June 27, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, on virtual composite design.

Wood/carbon composites for architecture

Innovative organic architecture enabled with wood/carbon laminates, software tools.

JEC World 2018 preview: Altair

Altair hosts conference session on “Simulation-driven Design for Composites” featuring case histories from Airbus, Pronal and others

Composites-intensive folding bike: Simplifying multi-modal transportation

The world’s lightest folding bike relies on CFRP for high stiffness and strength at low weight.

Composites bucking the market trend in M&A

During 2015 and 2016, the composites industry saw such impressive activity in mergers and acquisitions, it was perhaps to be expected that, in 2017, we would see a dip in transaction levels, especially given the global regulatory uncertainty and the impact that might have on larger, more complex deals.

Webinar: Composites in architecture

CompositesWorld is hosting a free Altair-sponsored webinar on Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 11:00 am EST, titled, “Use of Composite Materials in Organic Architecture.”

FCA, Toyota, Faurecia and AP&T win Altair awards

The 5th annual Altair Enlighten Awards strive to promote and celebrate innovation in automotive lightweighting.

Automated Preforming, Part 3: Quilted Stratum Process

CW’s tour of Cetim and the QSP line which preforms multi-thickness thermoplastic materials in 40-90 seconds for composite parts with cycle times of 1-2 minutes.

Metal + composite = Less weight, more room

Global supplier develops scaled design approach for metal/composite hybrids in highly loaded automotive applications.

CAMX 2016 Show Report

The 3rd annual joint ACMA/SAMPE-sponsored trade event comes to Anaheim with an exhibition and conference program attractive to professionals across the composites world.

ContiTech receives Altair award

ContiTech was recognized for its use of a fiberglass-reinforced polyamide rear crossbeam.

Carbon fiber meets simulation in ultralight bike frame

Rolo Bikes wanted to design a bicycle frame with carbon fiber in mind, and it wanted test it in the virtual world.

Laminated composites: The original additive manufacturing process

Because fabrication of laminated composites can claim to be the original additive manufacturing process, Altair Engineering Inc.'s (Troy, MI, US.) VP of aerospace solutions Robert Yancey says it also should be the most advanced in terms of application.

Slideshow of SPE ACCE 2015

A look at the 15th edition of SPE’s Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE).

Composite air brakes: Stopping the world’s fastest car

CFRP sandwich structures a key element of deceleration in the Bloodhound SSC rocket-powered racer’s two-run attempt at resetting the land speed record.

New aerocomposites niche: Helicopter transmission gears?

A NASA study shows that steel/composite hybrid gears save significant weight, and could mitigate vibration-related noise.

Stepping up to provide worker training and education

Two companies offer effective means to ensure skills transfer.

CAMISMA’s car seat back: Hybrid composite for high volume

Recycled fibers, in-situ polymerized PA12 and steel inserts combined in one-shot process to cut weight 40 percent at competitive cost, cycle time and safety.

Pavilion canopy: Graceful lines, strength of steel

All GFRP design eschews steel framing but can withstand wind and elements.

Architectural composites: Rising to new challenges

In North America, Europe, the Middle East and Down Under, architects and engineers are finding composites are a good fit in groundbreaking applications.

CAMX offers unprecedented new product access

CAMX 2014, Oct. 13-16 in Orlando, Fla., promises to be North America's largest ever composites trade show and conference. As a result, exhibitors are coming to the event with a wide array of new and existing materials, machinery, software and technology designed to help make composites fabrication faster, easier and more adaptable. CompositesWorld has been gathering information from CAMX exhibitors about what they will be featuring and introducing in their booths. This week's CAMX newsletter offers a preview of some of what you will find on the show floor.

Software Update: Simulation saves

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

Carbon fiber composites: Into the automotive mainstream?

Altair Engineering Inc.'s (Troy, Mich.) VP of aerospace solutions Robert Yancey asks if automakers will follow aeromanufacturers in embracing carbon fiber.

Cutting the cost of integrated composite aerostructures

A unitized all-composite aircraft door concept is realized in one shot with no fasteners.

Very Light Cars: Driving the future

X Prize-winning technology aims to change vehicle architecture.

Tidal turbine blade toughened for turbulent salt sea

Demonstrator design proves robust blade destined for 10-MW tidal turbine farm.

Virtual testing of composites: Beyond make & break

Software-based micromechanical modeling and analysis methods promise faster and more cost-effective aircraft development and testing programs.

Challenge of engineering retrofit blades

Myriad interrelated design factors are considered in new blades for turbines originally built for high-wind regimes.

Aircraft simulation gets composites aware

Rapid software evolution enables faster, better virtual solutions to complex composite design problems.

Predicting through-hole impact on boat structural girders

“Boat owners want an interior to be proud of,” says Susan Lake, senior R&D engineer at marine engineering firm High Modulus (Hamble, Hants, U.K., and Auckland, New Zealand), noting that that usually means concealing ventilation pipes, electrical wiring and other systems. Because these systems must share limited

Carbon fiber buys its way onboard

First used in one-off yacht and powerboat designs, where cost is no obstacle in the search for a performance edge in local regattas or around-the-world races, carbon fiber has since carved a niche in categories that were once the exclusive reserve of glass-reinforced composites, metals or wood. In applications as

FEA Roundup: Design, Simulation And Analysis Converge

New modeling and analysis software products increase the accessibility and reliability of finite element analysis data.

Innovative Composite Design May Replace Aluminum Chassis

It's been called the automotive engineer's dream material. Able to assume any shape while delivering stiffness, strength and light weight, carbon fiber has been the material of choice for years in structural components and stylishly aerodynamic exterior panels on race cars and exotic supercars costing more th

In-mold Preforming Cost-justifies Closed Molding

Computer-controlled robots spray preforms directly into the part tool, a running start for closed molding.

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