Infrastructure

Out of Autoclave

HPC turns 20

Celebrating two-decades of composites advocacy.

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Out of Autoclave

Wanted: Big thinkers and risk takers

Quickstep Composites (Dayton, Ohio) president and independent consultant Dale Brosius challenges the auto industry to think big and take risks in composites R&D.

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Big machines, small tolerances

An examination of the lengths Janicki Industries (Sedro-Woolley, Wash.) goes to ensure dimensional precision in its massive CNC-machining operations.

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SAMPE Long Beach 2013 review

The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering’s (SAMPE, Covina, Calif.) spring conference and exhibition is the organization’s largest event every year, and the 2013 edition, held May 6-9 in Long Beach, Calif., was no exception.

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Autoclave

Market outlook: Fiber-reinforced phenolics

Phenolics gain new footholds in anticorrosion markets now dominated by polyesters and epoxies.

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Construction

GFRP rebar replaces steel in parking garage

Composite rebar in replacement concrete slab the key in life-extending and less-costly structural rehabilitation project.

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NDT

SAMPE 2013 at a glance

A list of events planned by SAMPE (as of April 1) at its 2013 SAMPE Conference and Exhibition, in Long Beach, Calif.

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Thermoplastics

Pultruding polyurethane: Sheet pilings break boundaries

High-pressure pultrusion process creates polyurethane composite sheet pile system with the strength and stiffness to compete with steel.

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Aiming infusion at the application

With so many process variables to play with, how do you know which new solutions that promise better, faster infusion are right for your application?

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Aerospace

Market Outlook: Surplus in carbon fiber's future?

Participants at CW’s Carbon Fiber 2012 Conference see one coming as early as 2016.

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