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Onboard protection: Tough battery enclosure
Unique composite laminate provides crash protection for electric vehicle’s battery, occupants and first responders.
Read MorePrinted 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?
Read MoreArchitectural 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.
Read MoreMassive 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.
Read MoreComposite Panel Building Systems launches new composite sheathing
The insulated sheathing panel is energy-efficient and prevents thermal bridging and speeds construction.
Read MoreAutomating 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.
Read MoreResin infusion produces autoclave-capable tools for Scorpion jet
Leading Edge Aerospace designs and builds cost-effective prototype tools for maverick military aircraft concept.
Read MoreSoftware Update: Simulation saves
A look inside the increasingly well-equipped virtual toolbox for composite design, analysis, and manufacturing.
Read MoreDestroyer 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.
Read MoreSPE 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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