Design & Tooling
Accelerating materials insertion: Where do virtual allowables fit?
In the quest to reduce the time and cost for aerocomposite design allowables development, will conventional physical testing and virtual testing go head-to-head or work side-by-side?
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Curved pultrusion? No longer an oxymoron
Radius-Pultrusion process offers linear or curved profiles.
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Ceramic matrix composites: Hot engine solution
Disruptive designs for composites operation in 1093°C zones.
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Best practices for V-notched shear testing of composites
In my October 2015 column, I wrote an overview of the widely used V-notched shear test methods for composite materials. In this column, we focus on some additional best practices when performing V-notched shear testing of fiber-reinforced composites.
Read MoreKey takeaways from JEC World 2017
A quick read of the composites tea leaves after JEC World 2017.
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InFactory Solutions with Airbus
Airbus spin-off supplying Industry 4.0 systems for composites completes first qualification and discusses future developments for defect position visualization.
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Making composite parts from 3D printed paper molds
Honda made autoclave-capable molds at one-tenth the cost of CNC-machined metal using Mcor's SDL technology.
WatchPeople on the move: March 2017
Here is this month’s people on the move news in the composites industry.
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Russian Orthodox cathedral in Paris topped with composite domes
Infused, multi-piece molded sections formed finished domes that reduced dead load on the final building structure by 80%.
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Machine vision: Rapid error detection
Aerospace-aimed ply placement technology evolves into process management and near-real time inspection system for production laminated composite parts.
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