Work In Progress
McNair Aerospace Center: Closing the composites education gap
As the composites industry in South Carolina continues to expand through Boeing and its tier suppliers, composites education follows suit through the McNair Center.
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Improving composites processing with automated inspection
Automated, in-situ inspection bypasses the bottleneck of manual inspection.
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Carbon/glass spar cap enables world’s longest wind blade
LM Wind Power goes long with a resin-infused hybrid carbon composite strategy.
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Reversible multi-material adhesive bonds
Ferromagnetic nanoparticles in thermoplastic adhesives make it possible to debond and rebond adhesive joints, using electromagnetic energy.
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Armor Update: Reinforced elastomeric composite blast barrier
A new, flexible, lightweight, portable debris shield holds promise for protecting building occupants in military zones.
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Rotomolded cores: New options for sandwich composites
Permanent or removable, these hollow thermoplastic cores broaden industry offerings.
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Rocket Lab all-composite Electron launch vehicle
New player scaling up two-stage rocket to relieve small-satellite launch backlog.
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Composite cases fuel commercial space venture
Launch vehicle supplier Orbital ATK is looking to break into the burgeoning commercial space market with a rocket motor that features an all-carbon fiber case.
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3D TPC structural preforming process lightens car doors
Automated cell manufactures and pre-impregnates continuous-fiber 3D preforms for injection/compression overmolding of parts with complex shapes, and tailored structural properties.
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Curved pultrusion? No longer an oxymoron
Radius-Pultrusion process offers linear or curved profiles.
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