Design/Simulation

Automotive

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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Aerospace

Learjet 85 composite pressurized cabin a cost cutter

Single-piece carbon fiber composite structure selected over multipiece aluminum fuselage barrel section in new bizjet design.

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Sustainability

Future multifunctional structures: Composites needed

Barton Bennett (Odyssian Technology, South Bend, Ind.) discusses multifunctional systems that will soon integrate composite structures with sensors, mechanisms and subsystems.

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Epoxies

Deepsea submersible incorporates composite pressure capsule

Spencer Composites Corp. (Sacramento, Calif.) fabricates the inner carbon/epoxy composite pressure capsule for a submersible deepsea vessel the late Steve Fossett was to take to the depths of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.

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Composites 4.0

The digital thread: Transformation to automation

Dr. Leslie Cohen traces the “digital thread” on which automation of composites fabrication processes depends.

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RTM

Digital design, RTM update aircraft propeller

Second-generation type-certified propeller delivers for Cirrus Aircraft’s SR-22 at a more affordable price.

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Weaving

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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Adhesives

Orion re-entry system: Composites displace metal

World’s largest heat shield updates metal design with out-of-autoclave process.

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Integrated software: Streamlined hull & tool design

Although its reputation was solid, rigid inflatable boat (RIB) builder Planatech (Athens, Greece) recently sought ways to design new composite products and their corresponding tool sets faster, without compromising quality.

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Adhesives

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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Airtech
American Elements
release agents, purging compounds, process chemical specialties
CompositesWorld
Airtech
Webinar UV Powder Coatings for Composite & AM
HEATCON Composite Systems
Real Time Resin Degassing Measurement
Airtech International Inc.