Processes

1 Jun 2006

FRP Two way Joist System The Answer For Cleanroom Concrete Flooring

When electronics giant Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas, Texas) spec'd the 200,000 ft2 (18,850m2) multistory cleanroom for its new semiconductor manufacturing facility, it needed to accommodate not only strict indoor air quality requirements but heavy structural loads as well. The cleanroom was designated as the

1 May 2006

Aircraft Repair Can And Should Be Automated

Consultant Fred Perkins (Federal Engineering Associates LLC, McLean, Va.) is currently involved in quality control and mission assurance for defense programs as well as a Phase I SBIR program for the U.S. Air Force, applying stochastic design analysis to finite element modeling of composite aircraft part repairs.

1 May 2006

Laser Imaging Material Speeds Aircraft Parts Into Production

A simple product is having a significant impact on composites fabrication at the Boeing Phantom Works' Accelerated Digital Design and Manufacturing (ADDM) group in St. Louis. RegiStar, a trademarked laser-imageable tape from Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials (Marlborough, Mass.), was developed as a marking system for

1 May 2006

Sky's The Limit For Composites-intensive UAVs

Market growth is being spurred primarily by post-9/11 combat actions, homeland security and natural disasters.

10 Jan 2024

McDonnell Douglas composite cryotanks — a personal history

Composites industry veteran Bob Hartunian looks back on a bold effort in 1987 to develop a thermoplastic composite cryotank for hydrogen storage. It gets complicated.

1 May 2006

Automated Aircraft Repair Closer To Reality

Inspection and Repair Preparation Cell (IRPC) unveiled, revealing progress made toward automated aircraft repair workcells.

1 May 2006

May Editorial

HPC at JEC (left to right): Sian Raynor, Dirk Weed, Judy Hazen, Sara Black and Mike Musselman. Everything one hears lately — whether it's reports from the recent SpeedNews Conference in L.A. (see News item, p. 20) or sales statistics and projections from aircraft manufacturers and associations (see News, pp. 21-22)

1 Apr 2006