Adhesives
Primary structure repair: The quest for quality
Composite airframes on commercial craft drive development of automated repair technology and industry-wide repair technician certification.
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The need for quality control in adhesively bonded structural composite repairs has stimulated much debate, particularly about a key question: Will bonded repairs be certified for A350 and 787 primary composite fuselage structures?
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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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Antiballistic composites: Course corrections
Changes in the military theater are rewriting the script for composites in ballistic protection applications.
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IBEX 2011 Preview
The world’s largest exhibition for the boatbuilding industry sets sail inland again, on the Ohio River. Destination: Louisville.
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Concert hall composites: Acoustic alchemy
Massive composite acoustic structures will reflect and diffuse sound to heighten audio quality in a new high-profile performance space.
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Composite vs. corrosion: Battling for marketshare
Market trends and tighter budgets are helping to expand the use of composites to repair and replace corrosion-damaged infrastructure — aboveground and underground.
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Green resins: Growing up
High hurdles remain, but the push for sustainable sources of resin monomers is gaining momentum.
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An out-of-autoclave progress report
CW Conferences director Scott Stephenson recalls Dale Brosius’ update on Quickstep’s out-of-autoclave work for the F-35 program.
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WINDPOWER 2011 Report
Wind energy advocates, turbine builders and their suppliers, policy makers, and a growing number of wind-involved composites professionals gather where it all began.
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