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Adhesives

Antiballistic composites: Course corrections

Changes in the military theater are rewriting the script for composites in ballistic protection applications.

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Adhesives

Composite vs. corrosion: Battling for marketshare

Market trends and tighter budgets are helping to expand the use of composites to repair and replace corrosion-damaged infrastructure — aboveground and underground.

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Composite propeller for Royal Navy minehunter

Composite-for-metal replacement brings multiple benefits.

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Aerospace

SAMPE 2011 Long Beach Product Showcase

Huge show, huge new product offerings … huge success.

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New cutting tools for drilling material stacks

Dormer Tools Ltd. (Sheffield, U.K.) has developed veined polycrystalline diamond (PCD) cutting tools for drilling applications that involve stacked materials in aircraft wingskin assemblies.

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Automotive

Thermoplastic composites: Sustainable transport

Cyclic PBT oligomers used to mold Class 8 semitrailer bed via vacuum-bag processing.

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3-D preforms: Fast, efficient blade-root manufacture

To expedite the blade root manufacturing process for wind turbine blade manufacturers, 3TEX Inc. (Cary, N.C.) has developed RapidRoot, a 3-D preform.

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Infusion

Heavy-duty infusion: Scaling up for scrubbers

Infused 3-D woven fabric preforms best steel in beams and unitized deck structures built for the caustic confines of massive flue gas desulfurization systems.

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Weaving

Nanotechnology: It's real

ÂÌñÏׯÞ's conference director Scott Stephenson reviews several recent conference presentations as evidence that nanocomposites are no longer just the stuff of dreams.

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Ketones

Reinforced thermoplastics in aircraft primary structure

Carbon/PEKK floor beams prove production worthiness of lower cost, fast coconsolidation process.

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