Ceramic Matrix Composites

Aerospace

Aeroengine Composites, Part 1: The CMC invasion

As pressure for commercial aircraft fuel efficiency continues to mount, ceramic matrix composites evolve as they battle metals for application in the engine hot-zone and elsewhere.

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Weaving

CFM LEAP-1B engine begins flight test program

The engine features extensive use of carbon fiber and ceramic matrix composites.

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Printed circuit boards: A mobile market

Glass fiber/epoxy prepregs have dominated the mammoth PCB market for decades. Will that continue in a time of great change?

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Mass reduction for mass appeal: FRPs and CMCs in RVs

Composites save weight, speed assembly, improve aesthetics and diminish warranty service and promote sales.

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Braiding

JEC Europe 2014 Review

The composites world met again in Paris, vibrant, stronger, and more forward-looking than ever before.

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Aerospace

Highlights: JEC Europe 2014

Composites enable high performance and lower weight in washtubs, wheelchairs and engine exhaust cones. Plus new, ultralight materials.

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Aerospace

Albany Engineered Composites: Weaving the Future in 3-D

This 3-D weaver turned composite component supplier pursues a future in 3-D structures through continuous technology development.

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Aerospace

Laser encoder enables highly accurate cutting of critical wingskins

To ensure machined part dimensional accuracy on Flow International Corp.’s (Kent, Wash.) new Composites Machining Center’s (CMC) gantry design, in x-axis lengths of 6 to 50m (19.5 to 162.5 ft), one of the keys is Renishaw plc’s (Gloucestershire, U.K.) HS10/HS20 laser encoder.

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Autoclave

SiC manufacturing partnership

Nippon Carbon (Tokyo, Japan), GE Aviation (Newark, Del.) and Snecma (Courcouronnes, France) have banded together to form NGS Advanced Fibers Co. Ltd.

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Hi-Temp Resins

Ceramic-matrix composites heat up

Lightweight, hard and stable at high temperatures, CMCs are emerging from two decades of study and development into commercial applications.

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