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SwiftComp is a general-purpose multiscale modeling code that enables users to perform efficient and accurate modeling of composites.  

Updates to ACMA's Vacuum Infusion Process program are said to provide essential tools and information for composites industry professionals.

A total of 800 individual FRP parts were hand layup molded by specialist architectural façades and parts fabricator Look Composites.

Clean Sky 2 project led by ESTIA-Compositadour will develop enabling technologies for optimum rear fuselage and empennage.

Addcomposites completes installations of its AFP-XS toolhead at KUKA Finland and SAM|XL in Netherlands.

The LITA 3D printing system from the University of Delaware shows potential for in situ cure for high-performance carbon fiber composite parts.

A recently standardized prepreg tack test method has been developed for use in material selection, quality control and adjusting cure process parameters for automated layup processes.

Aero Design Labs’s ADRS-1 kit includes revised fairings and vortex generators to save $12,000 in fuel and >40 tons of CO2 per aircraft per month.

Boeing-led parts trials explore infusion, compression molding and thermoplastics, offering lessons and supply chain options to better compete with aluminum.

Composite modeling and simulation software specialist MultiMechanics (Omaha, NE, US) is demonstrating its newly released composite tube and pressure vessel optimization tool.