Autoclave

Design/Simulation 1 May 2006

Sky's The Limit For Composites-intensive UAVs

Market growth is being spurred primarily by post-9/11 combat actions, homeland security and natural disasters.

Aerospace 10 Jan 2024

McDonnell Douglas composite cryotanks — a personal history

Composites industry veteran Bob Hartunian looks back on a bold effort in 1987 to develop a thermoplastic composite cryotank for hydrogen storage. It gets complicated.

Aerospace 1 May 2006

Autoclave Quality Outside The Autoclave?

Pioneers of out-of-autoclave processing in aerospace applications answer a qualified but enthusiastic Yes!

Pultrusion 1 Mar 2006

The composites conference season is coming fast, and I'm sure many of you are preparing to hit the road in the next few weeks, as is the staff of HPC. As you read this, I'll be making my first visit to the SpeedNews Aviation Industry Suppliers Conference, at its 20th annual meeting in California. I hope to have

Adhesives 1 Mar 2006

Carbon Fiber Makes Ship-to-shore Crossings More Stable

Traditional wood and metal gangways have been heavy and, therefore, both hard to handle and narrow — the latter to save weight. Exit Engineering (Fiesso d'Artico, Italy) has developed several carbon composite gangways — the latest, a 350 cm/138 inch model targeted at the larger yacht market. At 60 cm/23.6 in wide,

Cutting/Kitting 1 Mar 2006

Thermoplastic composites gain leading edge on the A380

Breakthrough manufacturing process produces lightweight, affordable glass-reinforced PPS J-nose on the worlds largest commercial aircraft wing.

Curing 1 Feb 2006

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

Autoclave 1 Jan 2006