Sara Black Senior Technical Editor Emeritus
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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Q&A: Embraer's Marco Túlio Pellegrini
High-Performance Composites' technical editor Sara Black interviews Marco Túlio Pellegrini, the senior VP of operations and the COO of the Executive Jets division of Embraer SA (São José dos Campos, Brazil).
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Triaxial fabric wrap saves critical highway pier
The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky (Lexington, Ky.), and sister research group the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, recently completed the first bridge pier repair demonstration project to use triaxial carbon fabric.
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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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PLM software streamlines robotic cell development
FASTCURVE and FASTTIP, part of FASTSUITE from CENIT (Stuttgart, Germany), have been used successfully by Hyde Group Holdings Ltd. (Cheshire, U.K.) to optimize composite wing manufacturing.
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Solar panel supports: New rooftop system uses lightweighting strategies
A solar-energy start-up's prototype solar photovoltaic (PV) modules harnesses the benefits of injection-molded composites to solve problems often encountered in flat-roof solar-panel installations.
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Composite propeller for Royal Navy minehunter
Composite-for-metal replacement brings multiple benefits.
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Software speeds tape layer production, optimizes precision
the Siemens Aerospace Center of Excellence's (Elk Grove Village, Ill.) developed the Siemens SINUMERIK 840D CNC system speeds production on a large ATL machine at the former Boeing Wichita plant (now Spirit AeroSystems) in Wichita, Kan.
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Press refurbishment a cost-effective strategy for improving production
When a U.S.-based molder of composite friction materials used in aircraft braking systems recently upgraded its factory capabilities, French Oil Mill Machinery Co. (Piqua, Ohio) agreed to rebuild 10 of the molder’s 400-ton presses
Read MoreBarrier coats in pool production
Barrier coats protect fiberglass swimming pools from invasive water-treatment chemicals.
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Automating swimming pool production
Small producer ramps up productivity with "entry level" robotics.
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