Pressure Vessels

Out of Autoclave

Core for composites: Winds of change

Core materials suppliers lean into the bracing breeze of big-blade challenges raised by the burgeoning wind energy industry.

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Wind/Energy

Bye-bye black magic

Noting the great pressure to meet quality standards in a variety end-markets, CT editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan sees the composites community making a transition away from the old black magic to scientific process management.

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Pressure Vessels

SAMPE 2010 Seattle at a Glance

A quick-reference timetable for the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering's SAMPE 2010 Conference and Exhibition, May 17-20, in Seattle, Wash.

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SAMPE 2010 Seattle Preview

New decade, new venue, new economy, new M&P opportunities.

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Aerospace

Investing in composites: A look at the industry's business

Guest columnist Michael Del Pero predicts an increase in mergers and acquisitions activity for the post-recession composites industry.

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Adhesives

Composites 2010 Product Showcase

The ACMA’s Las Vegas exhibition reflected an industry in recovery.

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Pressure Vessels

Upsizing blade test regimes

As composite rotor blade size grows, research groups act to meet the urgent need for physical testing facilities with large-blade capacity.

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Adhesives

Structural polyurethanes: Bearing bigger loads

The versatile polymer shows new strength (and other advantages) in pultrusion and core materials applications.

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Wind/Energy

CF 2009: Comment on key end-markets

Conference keynoter Jens Hinrichsen (Aerospace Advisory Group LLC) evaluated factors likely to influence materials selection for aircraft that will replace the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 families.He started by establishing structures that he believes are very likely or somewhat likely to be composite structures: the empennage and rear pressure bulkhead and frame, the center wing box, floor beams and the unpressurized fuselage.

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Sustainability

SAMPE Europe/JEC Composites 2010 Preview

SAMPE Europe’s International Conference and the JEC Composites Show meet in Paris again in 2010.

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