Adhesives
All-composite ROTORwing prototype UAV
Composites enable construction, and handle unique VTOL loads, of unmanned aerial vehicles’ helicopter-to-airplane conversion.
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Low-rate layup tools made cost-effective with high-density polyurethane foam blocks
Nemesis Air Racing, an air racing team and kit-plane company owned and operated by Jon and Patricia Sharp, use prebonded closed-cell, polyurethane foam blocks to build the Nemesis NXT.
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Why are suppliers morphing into fabricators? Part II
In the second part of this two-part examination of this significant trend, CT managing editor Mike Musselman posts the results of a survey on the subject.
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Automated cutting accelerates
Software/hardware advances and peripheral equipment make flatbed cutters essential to automated production scenarios.
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Public transit: Modular composites update Sao Paulo ferries
When the Brazilian state of São Paulo, through its state-controlled company DERSA, funded new composite superstructures for 12 existing car ferries, Barracuda Advanced Composites (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) specified materials and engineered the new design.
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2014 JEC Europe Review
The composites world met again in Paris, vibrant, stronger, and more forward-looking than ever before.
Read MoreCAMX leadership Q&A
CAMX represents a rare collaboration in the North American composites industry, joining the conference and trade show efforts of the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) and the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE). As the composites industry gets ready for CAMX, show organizers caught up with the leaders of each trade group to capture their thoughts on how this event meets the needs of a fast-evolving industry. Q&A with Jay Merrell and Paul Wienhold.
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Plastic honeycomb goes large-scale
With RENOLIT GORCELL's broad commercialization, recent licensing by Toray, and “cooperation” with Lanxess, EconCore’s continuous thermoplastic honeycomb process gains more followers in pursuit of low-cost panels for mass markets.
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JEC Europe 2014 Review
The composites world met again in Paris, vibrant, stronger, and more forward-looking than ever before.
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The Curiosity Mars rover: Descent stage composites
Apart from the aeroshell that protected the Curiosity rover during its months in space and Mars descent sequence, only a few other parts of the mission’s descent stage were made from composite materials. Here, HPC identifies and describes them.
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