Construction
Maintaining fiber length in complex 3-D designs
Award-winning composite pallet showcases new LFT molding process from South Africa.
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Life Cycle Assessment: Are composites "green"?
Methods for calculating the impact composites have on the environment enable data-driven comparisons to traditional materials on a level playing field.
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International Building Code: Meeting requirements for interior composites
How to produce FRP parts that can meet International Building Code flame-spread and smoke-obscuration specifications.
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Besting Big Ben: A Marvel in Makkah
Composite design makes possible the world’s largest clock and tallest clock tower.
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Corrosion resistance: Desert-bound chemical and potable-water tanks
RL Industries (Fairfield, Ohio) recently overcame logistical obstacles to successfully fabricate five large composite storage tanks for a chemical plant in Saudi Arabia.
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Hotel wrap: Curvilinear pultrusions
Airport hotel’s striking wraparound roofline made possible, durable and affordable with pultruded flat panels and profiled support structures.
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Structural makeover: Big bridge-strengthening project
The 2.5-km/1.6-mile long cable-stayed-concrete West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia, is prepped for added traffic lanes with BASF's MBrace composite reinforcements, pultruded by EPSILON Composite (Gaillan-en-Médoc, France).
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WPC weathering: Accelerated testing confirms prediction
Aspen Research Corp. (White Bear Lake, Minn.) evaluated a Korean manufacturer’s WPC deck board with the aid of xenon arc accelerated weathering chambers supplied by ATLAS Material Testing Solutions (Chicago, Ill.).
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Building a bigger Big Wheel
Machining specialist scales up the 1970s icon, producing plugs and tools for an exact fiberglass replica at a Disney resort.
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Residential construction breakthrough: Composites find a home
Composite materials get the go-ahead for an unconventional but code-compliant California house.
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