Aerospace

SAMPE ’08 technology showcase

Billed as the world’s largest advanced materials trade event, SAMPE’s 2008 Symposium and Exhibition returned to Long Beach.

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Aerospace

Italian Tier 1 supplier benefits from automated cutting technology

Italian aerospace supplier CAM uses an automated cutting system from Gerber Technology for cutting fiberglass, aramid, carbon prepreg, aramid cores and other materials.

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Editorial

There are no bad ideas

Whenever we, as an editorial staff, sit down to begin planning editorial features and other articles for the coming year, we get our ideas from a variety of sources.

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Aerospace

Aviation Outlook: Fuel pricing ignites demand for composites in commercial transports

A confluence of aircraft OEM technical innovation and economic pressures on their airline customers creates increasingly favorable market conditions for aerospace composites.

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Aerospace

Assessing conventional and advanced NDI for composite aircraft

 AANC experiments test how well damage can be detected in composite parts.

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Out of Autoclave

JEC COMPOSITES 2008 show review

Composites professionals converged on this annual Parisian gathering in greater numbers than ever before, confident that the market’s global growth will continue.

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Aerospace

RETOOLING THEORY AND PRACTICE

To meet the critical need for knowledgeable composites engineers and technicians, public/private partnerships are molding new applications-driven and transportable educational models.

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Sustainability

JEC Composites Show Product Showcase

Composites professionals converged in Paris in greater numbers than ever before, confident that the market’s global growth will continue.

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Aerospace

From the COO

Remember fall 1993? If you’re a sports fan, you may remember that my Chicago White Sox lost the American League Championship series to the Toronto Blue Jays. That same year the Dallas Cowboys began their march to their fourth Super Bowl victory. Composites pros might recall that GM’s Corvette featured rear inner pa

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Education: Retooling Theory and Practice

To meet the critical need for knowledgeable composites engineers and technicians, public/private partnerships are molding new applications-driven and transportable educational methods.

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