Materials

Carbon Fibers

The automotive industry’s “killer app”?

Automotive is king, and the killer automotive app will be the multi-material and all-carbon-fiber B-pillar.

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Automotive

Process automation: A model response to Trumponomics and Brexit?

Offshoring can’t go on forever and a significant trend toward reshoring is probably inevitable.

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Thermoplastics

ÂÌñÏׯÞ's story planning journey

Automotive materials and process innovation in the driver’s seat.

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Focus on Design

Collaboration produces winning paddleboard

Design, and design for manufacturability, come together in this racing SUP for one-off and serial production.

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Out of Autoclave

Accelerating materials insertion: Where do virtual allowables fit?

In the quest to reduce the time and cost for aerocomposite design allowables development, will conventional physical testing and virtual testing go head-to-head or work side-by-side?

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Out of Autoclave

Curved pultrusion? No longer an oxymoron

Radius-Pultrusion process offers linear or curved profiles.

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Carbon Fibers

Ceramic matrix composites: Hot engine solution

Disruptive designs for composites operation in 1093°C zones.

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Graphene

Commercialization of CMCs and developments for next-gen performance

As industrial production of parts begins, new developments offer promise for higher-temperature and more damage-tolerant ceramic matrix composite (CMCs).

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Carbon Fibers

Frank Macher, Jon Smith retire from Continental Structural Plastics

Steve Rooney named CEO, Steve Wisniewski promoted to vice president of finance.

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Carbon Fibers

Hybrid carbon fiber/aluminum suspension knuckle

Yields 26% greater stiffness via bonded prepreg patch.

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CW Tech Days: High-Temp Composite Solutions