Infrastructure
AVANCO: Driving the industrialization of CFRP structures
The AVANCO Group is producing high-quality CFRP parts into a wide array of applications from six production facilities in Germany and the US.
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Composites upgrade marine infrastructure
All-composite docks best concrete in cost and time and aim toward future fastener-less construction for greater savings and sustainability.
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Structural health monitoring: The toolbox
There are a broad range of SHM technologies that take advantage of a variety of sensing mechanisms. Here's a short sketch of each, accompanied by tables that indicate current uses and developmental progress.
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Structural health monitoring: NDT-integrated aerostructures
SHM moves from structural testing to an FAA-qualified inspection alternative, to reduce cost, streamline operations and mature toward lighter, more robust smart structures
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Workforce development: Let's start in high school
CW Editor-in-Chief Jeff Sloan says one concern at the otherwise positive initial membership meeting of the new Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) was that the composites industry is quickly losing knowledge, as old-timers retire, that is not so easily replaced. Here's his prescription.
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Opportunities for composites at AIA 2015
Key trends and new products on the floor at this year's American Institute of Architects show.
Read MoreAmerican wind energy adds jobs in 2014, credits PTC tax credit
The industry calls on Congress to extend the Production Tax Credit (PTC) for wind power.
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Aerospace still matters
CW columnist Dale Brosius is the head of his own consulting company, which serves clients in the composites industry worldwide. Here, he comments on the still prominent role the aerospace industry will have in the automotive industry's integration of composites into its manufacturing mix.
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CompoSIDE delivers cost and time saving for composites consultancy
STRUCTeam cites £40,000 savings in licensing costs and up to 40% reduction in design time by using this web-based composites design engineering solution.
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