Aerospace
Automated Preforming, Part 1: Numbers and Landscape
CW’s multi-blog series on preforming begins with an overview and quick look at the numbers: 1-minute take time, 10-15 seconds per layer, 490-kg/hr and 3.5 million parts/year. Are you ready for serial CFRP production?
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Composites recycling: Gaining traction
Recycling of carbon fiber, glass fiber and — at last — resins, is growing as new players enter the space.
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European SAMPE meeting explores composites innovation
High spots from SAMPE Europe’s Summit 17.
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Gardner Business Index at 55.2 in March 2017
As the year’s first quarter closed out, the trend was growth and expectations were that growth would continue.
Read MoreProcess automation: A model response to Trumponomics and Brexit?
Offshoring can’t go on forever and a significant trend toward reshoring is probably inevitable.
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People on the move: April 2017
Here is this month’s people on the move news in the composites industry.
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3D printed tools are in production at Dassault Falcon Jet
The trend of employing polymeric additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing for composite tooling is growing.
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Accelerating materials insertion: Where do virtual allowables fit?
In the quest to reduce the time and cost for aerocomposite design allowables development, will conventional physical testing and virtual testing go head-to-head or work side-by-side?
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Ceramic matrix composites: Hot engine solution
Disruptive designs for composites operation in 1093°C zones.
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Commercialization of CMCs and developments for next-gen performance
As industrial production of parts begins, new developments offer promise for higher-temperature and more damage-tolerant ceramic matrix composite (CMCs).
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