Construction
Big museum, big structures
Massive aramid/carbon composite sandwich panels make Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum the largest composite-clad building in the world.
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Designing for high pressure: Large-diameter underground pipe
Careful analysis is needed to ensure success of buried composite piping for industrial applications.
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Pultruded windows: Rising high?
New pultrudable glass fiber/resin formulations enable window manufacturers to break in to commercial architecture and build market share in residential construction.
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Cured-in-place pipe: UV curing ensures liner performance in leaking pipe
When the Knoxville, Tenn. Utilities Board faced a needed repair of an actively leaking clay sewer pipe, it opted for Reline America's (Saltville, Va.) cured-in-place pipe cured with ultraviolet (UV) light.
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Carbon fiber market: Gathering momentum
All signs point to increasing demand from many market sectors. Will capacity keep pace?
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SMC sandwich panels: Lean process opens doors
Patented process enables compression molding at lower pressures, saving capital equipment costs for panel fabrication.
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A hidden revolution: composite rebar gains strength
Fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) replacing coated steel in more reinforced-concrete applications.
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Cathedral art: Fiberglass molds shape unfinished masterpiece
The builders of Sagrada FamÃlia Cathedral, one of architecture’s exceptional marvels, use fiberglass molds to realize architect Antoni GaudÃ's unfinished masterpiece.
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Concert hall composites: Acoustic alchemy
Massive composite acoustic structures will reflect and diffuse sound to heighten audio quality in a new high-profile performance space.
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Composite vs. corrosion: Battling for marketshare
Market trends and tighter budgets are helping to expand the use of composites to repair and replace corrosion-damaged infrastructure — aboveground and underground.
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