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IBEX 2011 Review
As the International BoatBuilders’ Exhibition & Conference again docks in Louisville, the industry continues a slow and tentative rebound.
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Looking for butt-kickers
HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan is looking for that larger-than-life bridge builder or automaker that is willing to take a Boeing-like composites plunge so everyone else takes a whipping for a bit and has to get onboard to keep up.
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2011 High-Performance Resins Highlights
Attendees reviewed the current state of advanced resin technology and the tests that lay ahead for expanding composites into new applications and markets.
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Wind over deep water
Research into floating wind turbine systems promises to expand composites to towers and platforms.
Read MoreTopology optimization
For Airbus (Toulouse, France), topology optimization is just one of many computer-aided optimization techniques that have been employed in the aircraft design process — and employed ever earlier — to reduce time and cost.
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WINDPOWER 2011 Report
Wind energy advocates, turbine builders and their suppliers, policy makers, and a growing number of wind-involved composites professionals gather where it all began.
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HHS styrene ruling: Bad science, bad for the composites industry
Tom Hedger, president of Magnum Venus Plastech (Clearwater, Fla.) and a board member of the the American Composites Manufacturers Assn. (ACMA, Arlington, Va.) joins the chorus of disapprovval that has greeted U.S Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' approval of styrene's classification as a likely carcinogen.
Read MoreChina invested to become world SWT leader
A 2009 China Europe International Business School (Shanghai) project titled The Rural Electrification in China and The Impact of Renewable Energies details the government policies and multinational funding that has established China as the leader in small wind.
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HAWTs vs. VAWTs
Horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) command the small wind turbine (SWT) market, led by a handful of companies that have been in production for 20 to 30 years, while vertical-axis wind turbine (VAWT) manufacturers, with the exception of Ropatec (Bolzano, Italy), have mostly developed within the past five years.
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Small wind gets big
Massive growth, complex blade designs reopen challenging market in wind energy niche.
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