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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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Wind/Energy

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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Weaving

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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Carbon Fibers

Besting Big Ben: A Marvel in Makkah

Composite design makes possible the world’s largest clock and tallest clock tower.

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ATL/AFP

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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Pultrusion

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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Carbon Fibers

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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Construction

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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Molds/Tools

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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Sustainability

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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