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Unmanned rotorcraft passes stringent German Navy shipboard tests
CAMCOPTER’s high strength-to-weight ratio is made possible by composite materials.
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Wind Blade Manufacturing: Cost-efficient materials-based strategies
The wind blade’s four key elements — the root, the spar, the aerodynamic shell or fairing, and the surfacing system — have present unique manufacturing challenges that must be met with carefully selected composite material systems and molding strategies.
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Composites encourage design creativity in LSA aircraft
Manufacturers of small aircraft expand the private pilot’s options on the strength (-to-weight) and contourability of advanced composites.
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Wind Blade Manufacturing: Are thermoplastic composites the future?
In a market dominated by thermoset composites, some wind turbine blade manufacturers are actively pursuing new composite blade designs featuring faster-processing reinforced thermoplastics.
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In-situ composite repair builds on basics
For on-aircraft repair, demand is on the rise for specialized composites training and expertise.
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FRP forms enable fluted concrete column design
The Century Project, a 42-story luxury condominium tower in Los Angeles, Calif. , designed by Robert A. M.
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Standing Up to Natural Disasters
Composites are answering the call for residential and commercial structures that can weather future "perfect storms."
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Prepreg forecast: Strong growth through 2013
Prepreg applications are on the rise in the composites industry as manufacturers in a variety of industries increasingly adopt this versatile material. Today, prepregs find use in commercial aerospace, military/defense, general aviation, space/satellite, marine, sporting goods, automotive, civil engineering, wind
Read MoreComposites enable micro air vehicle
Real-time sensing capability makes slow-flight VTOL MAV a "man replacement."
Read MoreStructural health monitoring: Composites get smart
New initiatives are mainstreaming real-time monitoring systems into composites on aircraft, wind blades and other critical performance structures.
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