Automotive

Automotive 30 Nov 2013

Composites for every powertrain

CT columnist Dale Brosius, the head of his own consulting company and the president of Dayton, Ohio-based Quickstep Composites, the U.S. subsidiary of Australia-based Quickstep Technologies (Bankstown Airport, New South Wales), comments on the role composites have played as the automotive powertrain has evolved.

Adhesives 30 Nov 2013

Natural fiber composite drives automotive sustainability

Coir felt greens an EV, improves lives in developing world.

Carbon Fibers 30 Nov 2013

Automotive, going forward?

CT editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan asks when, if and how composites professionals will be ready to meet the challenges of significant use of carbon fiber composites in automobiles.

Carbon Fibers 1 Nov 2013

Software supplier aids parts producer with greater accuracy

Paul Crosby (Crosby Composites, Brackley, Northamptonshire, U.K.) says PowerMILL software, which converts CAD models to NC toolpaths for multiaxis milling, has helped produce F1 composite parts to levels of accuracy rarely seen in the industry.

Aerospace 31 Oct 2013

Toray + Zoltek = potential game changer?

Consultant Dale Brosius, also president of Dayton, Ohio-based Quickstep Composites LLC, the U.S. subsidiary of Australia-based Quickstep Technologies (Bankstown Airport, New South Wales), sees the Toray buyout of Zoltek as a potential auto-industry game changer.

Automation 1 Oct 2013

Structural preform technologies emerge from the shadows

Not yet in full production, with one exception, all are aimed at accelerating composite part manufacture at fast automotive rates.

Editorial 30 Sep 2013

HPC goes to SPE ACCE

CT Editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan fields initial reports from two CT staffers about the recent — and growing — Society of Plastics Engineers' Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition.

Automotive 19 Sep 2013

At Composites Europe: A lot of car hoods

As with most composites trades shows and events these days, automotive applications are getting more attention.

Braiding 31 Aug 2013

Formula 1 team optimizes car design-to-build process

FEA-to-CAD translation tool opens doors to cross-department communication and frees up time for R&D and test-piece manufacture.

Carbon Fibers 30 Aug 2013

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.

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