Materials

Aerospace

Spread-tow fabric secures ultralight aircraft’s weight goal

Shark Aero (Hlboké, Slovak Republic) designed its composite-airframed, single-seat prototype ultralight aircraft (ULA), the Shark UL, with spread-tow carbon fiber woven fabrics to reduce weight.

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Glass Fibers

A hidden revolution: composite rebar gains strength

Fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) replacing coated steel in more reinforced-concrete applications.

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Autoclave

Composite flywheel: HEV racing dynamo

Electric flywheel energy storage system powers Porsche 911 hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) to endurance racing victory.

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Automotive

Automotive composites: Structural underbody

For Detroit’s Big Three, a joint precompetitive composite design, development, fabrication and testing program nears successful completion.

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Carbon fiber composites: The past can be the future

JIm Stike, of Materials Innovation Technologies – Reengineered Carbon Fibers (Fletcher, N.C.), points to progress in the reclaiming of waste and end-of-life carbon fiber.

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Construction

Cathedral art: Fiberglass molds shape unfinished masterpiece

The builders of Sagrada Família Cathedral, one of architecture’s exceptional marvels, use fiberglass molds to realize architect Antoni Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece.

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Aerospace

Primary structure repair: The quest for quality

Composite airframes on commercial craft drive development of automated repair technology and industry-wide repair technician certification.

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Carbon fiber food tray arm: Better and cheaper

CW Conferences director Scott Stephenson summarizes the substance of a presentation at the High Performance Resins 2011 conference (Seot. 27-28) by Mohammad Moniruzzaman (SABIC Innovative Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass.), who detailed the development of a carbon fiber composite food tray arm for passenger aircraft seat backs.

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Weaving

Designing the largest solar-powered vacht

All-composite catamaran Tûranor continues its global circumnavigation, using only the power of the sun.

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Carbon Fibers

Self-deployable, composite satellite boom

Researchers design and validate a boom made of ultrathin carbon-fiber/epoxy laminate, using a novel, highly accurate analysis method.

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