Focus on Design
CFRTP enables better, greener smartphones
Carbon Mobile’s “monocoque” design eliminates separate case, cover and frame, better protects electronics and simplifies disassembly.
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Modernizing the mechanical rotor sail
Composites are key for Norsepower’s award-winning redesign of a century-old rotor sail for reducing carbon emissions on passenger and cargo ships.
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Composite buildings go monocoque
Superior protection from the elements plus fast, affordable installation and maintenance have quickly made Orenco Composites’ DuraFiber buildings an attractive choice for water and wastewater, communications, transportation and power industry outbuildings.
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Digital design, multi-material structures enable a quieter supersonic NASA X-plane
NASA’s composites-intensive X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft is set for its first flight by the end of 2022, after nine years of design, manufacture, assembly and testing by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.
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Refurbishing bridges at half the time, cost versus replacement
Instead of demolishing and rebuilding bridges, SUREbridge doubles the strength and durability of existing structures with an FRP deck for a smart, sustainable solution.
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Hydrostatic membrane consolidation: Skin-stringer panels in 60 minutes
Airbus and Siempelkamp demonstrate press process as alternative to thermoplastic welding, aimed to enable rate 100 aircraft and future mobility manufacturing.
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Multi-composite thrust chamber aims to boost rockets, reduce cost for New Space economy
Black Engine uses new, microporous CMC liner for transpiration cooling and multiple lightweight composites in modular design that offers increased lifetime and lower maintenance versus current launch vehicle engines.
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SMC material configurations tailored to automotive battery enclosure design
SMC battery cover offers various module configurations, levels of performance, mass and cost for electric vehicles.
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BMW rolls out multi-material Carbon Cage with 2022 iX vehicle line
For its new battery-electric iX sports activity vehicle, BMW combines CFRP strategies from previous i3, i8 and 7-Series designs and adds CFRTP for a lightweight, rigid frame.
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Composite ring frame improves safety, cost for workhorse helicopter
Airbus Helicopters replaces aluminum primary structure with CFRP using multi-piece preform and single-shot infusion.
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