Weaving

Onboard protection: Tough battery enclosure

Unique composite laminate provides crash protection for electric vehicle’s battery, occupants and first responders.

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BMI

Printed circuit boards: A mobile market

Glass fiber/epoxy prepregs have dominated the mammoth PCB market for decades. Will that continue in a time of great change?

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Weaving

Architectural composites: Rising to new challenges

In North America, Europe, the Middle East and Down Under, architects and engineers are finding composites are a good fit in groundbreaking applications.

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Aerospace

Massive Technologies coordinating sale of aero-grade carbon fiber

The company is offering 432,000 lb of aerospace-grade carbon fiber, originally purchased by Boeing for the 787, at a discount from the retail price.

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Adhesives

Composite Panel Building Systems launches new composite sheathing

The insulated sheathing panel is energy-efficient and prevents thermal bridging and speeds construction.

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Aerospace

Automating the CH-53K’s composite flexbeams

Accudyne doubles the part production rate and eliminates layup errors through stepwise automation of this primary structure’s complex hand layup process.

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Carbon Fibers

Resin infusion produces autoclave-capable tools for Scorpion jet

Leading Edge Aerospace designs and builds cost-effective prototype tools for maverick military aircraft concept.

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Software Update: Simulation saves

A look inside the increasingly well-equipped virtual toolbox for composite design, analysis, and manufacturing.

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Weaving

Destroyer deckhouse roof meets U.S. Navy fire code with phenolic composite

An all-composite deckhouse superstructure, built by Huntington Ingalls Industries (Gulfport, Miss.) cuts topside weight and enables stealth capability by reducing the radar signature of the U.S. Navy’s new, nearly $4 billion (USD) Zumwalt-class destroyer.

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Weaving

SPE ACCE 2014 best paper winners announced

Two papers in the Virtual Prototyping & Testing of Composites session, and one in the Nanocomposites session, have been judged the best at this year's SPE Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition, Sept. 9-11 in Novi, Mich., USA.

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