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Turnkey manufacturing systems: Automated RTM for aerospace
German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Center for Lightweight Production Technology site in Stade, Germany, has developed EVo, an automated production line capable of 100,000 complex composite parts/yr.
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Turnkey manufacturing systems: Materials, markets and maturation
Automated production cells promise affordability and less risk in scaling up composites production, but are they really the path forward?
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Structural work of art
Composites fabricator uses an innovative molding approach and digital techniques to actualize architect’s customized residential stairway.
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CW Ideas in Action
Ideas are just ideas until someone does the hard work of putting them into action and seeing results. CW's editors, therefore, inaugurate an annual review of Ideas in Action, celebrating a handful of hot concepts that could make those who conceived them "household names."
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Infused trimaran takes to the seas
French shipyard CMN has released a video showing the Ocean Eagle 43 infused epoxy trimaran in action.
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Reducing manufacturing cost via RTM
Airbus Bremen aims to replace dozens of prepreg components and assembly operations with a unitized multispar composite flap molded in a one-shot process.
Read MoreCMF project's process combines prepreg with RTM
Composite Multispar Flap (CMF) project at Airbus Bremen demonstrates SQRTM process for producing aircraft flaps
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New technologies and companies at CAMX 2015
Final rundown of “finds” from CAMX, from technology for cutting composites and joining CFRP to metal for hybrid parts to companies offering training, textiles and NDT.
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Increased competition from metals
Boeing and Airbus are developing new, lightweight, corrosion-resistant metals that are targeting composites' traditional niche in the material sphere.
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CAMX 2015: Eyecatchers
A selection of parts, processes and new players from the exhibit floor as well some interesting developments from the technical sessions.
Read MoreMultifunctional composites: past, present and future
Dr. Les Lee at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Dr. James Thomas at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory give insights into the history of multifunctional composites, the drivers for their development and where they are headed.
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