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Plane Enthusiasts Plan LSA-compliant Composite Aircraft
Aspiring owners build and - plan to market - their own tandem seat, twin-boom pusher.
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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.
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Rapid Fiber Preforming On A Large Scale
A proven alternative to open molding of big parts.
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Composite Rebar Speeds Tunneling Operations
Pultruded replacement for steel reinforcement in concrete clears path for more efficient use of boring machinery.
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Sizing Up Fiber Sizings
What glass fiber users need to know about sizings, and how new sizing developments are enhancing the performance of glass-reinforced composites.
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Thermoformable Composite Panels, Part 1
Preconsolidated fiber-reinforced thermoplastics offer short cycle times, tailored properties, recyclability and lower cost.
Read MoreThe Future Of Sizing Design
In an age in which many composite processes and products benefit from some form of computer assistance, sizing development remains primarily an experimental, laboratory-driven pursuit.
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Robot streamlines finishing of composite antenna covers
Sparks Fiberglass' (Rock Island, Ill.) first order for 50 8-ft/15.2m long fiberglass antenna covers for cellular telephone towers in 1998 kicked off a growth period for the company, in which manufacturing space quickly became scarce. When the company moved to a larger facility, it began looking for alternatives to the
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Thermoplastic composites gain leading edge on the A380
Breakthrough manufacturing process produces lightweight, affordable glass-reinforced PPS J-nose on the worlds largest commercial aircraft wing.
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