Braiding

Aerospace

Airbus A350 Update: BRaF & FPP

EADS Innovation Works pursues qualification of Braided Frames for the A350-1000 fuselage and develops Fiber Patch Preforming for complex local reinforcements.

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Aerospace

2011 High-Performance Resins Highlights

Attendees reviewed the current state of advanced resin technology and the tests that lay ahead for expanding composites into new applications and markets.

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Weaving

Triaxial fabric wrap saves critical highway pier

The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky (Lexington, Ky.), and sister research group the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, recently completed the first bridge pier repair demonstration project to use triaxial carbon fabric.

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Braiding

2011 International Paris Air Show

At the 49th event, records are set for attendance and aircraft orders, and airframers go on record about composites-related developments.

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Autoclave

SAMPE 2011 Long Beach Product Showcase

Huge show, huge new product offerings … huge success.

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PEKK

JEC Paris 2011 highlights

The news from this annual Parisian in-gathering of composites professionals is heavily weighted toward automotive lightweighting.

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Carbon Fibers

3-D woven reinforcements update

Suppliers make progress toward reinforcement preforms that exhibit comparable properties in the x, y and z axes.

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Aerospace

Composites enable new advances in engine technology

ÂÌñÏׯÞ's conference director Scott Stephenson recalls a presentation at the recent Carbon Fiber 2010 conference (Dec. 7-9, La Jolla, Calif.) by Doug Ward of GE Aviation (Cincinnati, Ohio) on design trends in commercial jet engines that favor the use of composites.

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Braiding

Antiballistics: Better defense, less expense

Armor applications grow on the strength of new markets, new composite materials.

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Wind/Energy

SAMPE 2010 Seattle Showcase

SAMPE’s first-ever foray into Boeing Country wrapped up with the M&P organization’s biggest draw this decade.

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