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Composites at AIA 2017

The ACMA Architectural Division exhibited its 4th annual Composites Pavilion and 2nd annual COMPOSITES CHALLENGE for architectural students.

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Aerospace

Automated Preforming, Part 1: Numbers and Landscape

CW’s multi-blog series on preforming begins with an overview and quick look at the numbers: 1-minute take time, 10-15 seconds per layer, 490-kg/hr and 3.5 million parts/year. Are you ready for serial CFRP production?

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Braiding

Composites recycling: Gaining traction

Recycling of carbon fiber, glass fiber and — at last — resins, is growing as new players enter the space.

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Consumer

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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Sustainability

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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Curved pultrusion? No longer an oxymoron

Radius-Pultrusion process offers linear or curved profiles.

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Curing

Ceramic matrix composites: Hot engine solution

Disruptive designs for composites operation in 1093°C zones.

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Aerospace

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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Weaving

Wait, wait, there’s more: JEC 2017

There’s never enough time to see everything at the JEC World event, and this year the problem was even worse. Here’s more information on new products and companies, from Paris…

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Aerospace

Composites: Hiding in plain sight

We need a collective public relations campaign to create more awareness of composites’ benefits.

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