Aerospace
Lightning strike protection strategies for composite aircraft
Tried-and-true materials thrive, but new approaches and new forms designed to process faster are entering the marketplace.
Read MoreSAMPE 2013 Long Beach preview
The Society’s annual convention comes home to the West Coast and homes in on future possibilities for advanced composite material and process engineering.
Read MoreSAMPE 2013 at a glance
A list of events planned by SAMPE (as of April 1) at its 2013 SAMPE Conference and Exhibition, in Long Beach, Calif.
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SAMPE Europe 2013/JEC Europe 2013 highlights
Held concurrently, these two seminal European composites events weathered a rare Parisian snowstorm to plumb the depth and breadth of the industry.
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Building a better tail boom
Out-of-autoclave carbon fiber/thermoplastic demonstrator is a 30 percent lighter drop-in replacement for an existing aluminum design.
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U.S. crew and cargo candidate takes shape with composites
Crew-capable Dream Chaser to enable ISS transport missions from U.S.
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Pierce County trains skilled workers through collaborative curriculum building
Bruce Kendall, the president and CEO of the private, nonprofit Economic Development Board (EDB) for Tacoma-Pierce County (Wash.), reports on the success of a collaborative training curriculum development program that produces skilled workersfor the aerospace industry.
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Will carbon fiber be ready to join the 54.5-mpg battle?
Guest columnists Lindsay Brooke, senior editor of the Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) Automotive Engineering International magazine, says Carbon fiber’s decades-long promise in automotive composites might, indeed, be realized.
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JEC Europe 2013: And on the second day, the snow melted
A relatively rare European snowstorm brought much of the continent to a halt on the first day of the JEC Europe 2013 show. But the show went on . . .
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GPM mission: Better climate data
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission designed to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours.
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