Carbon Fibers
Restoring a museum masterpiece with composites
Carbon fiber/vinyl ester reinforcement extends the structural life of architectural and art-world landmark.
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Carbon Fiber 2007 looks forward with optimism
As high demand confronts a still limited supply, industry insiders and analysts meet to assess carbon fiber’s future and review emerging applications.
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Market Trends: Carbon fiber demand, supply and the commodity threshold
ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ conferences director Scott Stephenson notes the increasing evidence at Carbon Fiber 2007 that the carbon fiber market is maturing.
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Boeing 787 Update
Approaching rollout and first flight, the 787 relies on innovations in composite materials and processes to hit its targets
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Carbon/epoxy guitar: Competitive in quality and price
When former aerospace engineer and guitar aficionado Ellis Seal set out to design a composite acoustic guitar, he believed the inherent properties of carbon fiber could produce sound, playability, durability and consistency impossible in a wooden instrument.
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Low-cost carbon fiber: Real or just wishful thinking?
In a wide variety of applications, from easy-to-install bridges to ultra-lightweight, fuel-efficient vehicles, there has been great excitement in recent years about the potential for using carbon fiber-reinforced composites.
Read MoreModular Cable Offers Flexibility
The Composite Carbon Cable system developed by Doris Engineering, IFP, Soficar and Freyssinet is based on a different design. Their concept is to assemble a tether from uniformly sized strands or “modules” made up of parallel rods. Each module is hexagonally shaped, allowing any number of modules (strands) to
Read MoreOther Types Of Repairs Possible With Composites
Since 1995, DML Composites (Plymouth, U.K.) has been one of the pioneers in the use of customized wet layup repairs for offshore pipework and other platform component repairs. A project completed by DML in 2000 involved the in-service repair of a steel caisson on a platform in the North Sea. A caisson is a lar
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