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Aerospace

Boeing completes milestone for Commercial Crew system

Boeing has completed the Certification Baseline Review for its CST-100 spacecraft under NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract.

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NDT

UK's Composites Engineering Show features latest in composites technology

Composites technologies for automotive, mass transit and aerospace abounded at the Composites Engineering Show in Birmingham, UK, Nov. 11-12.

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CNG tanks: Pressure vessel epicenter

In the pressure vessel market, there are a number of competing designs offered around the world, including a small number of new CNG Type V “linerless” designs, which have recently received regulatory approval for use in vehicle applications.

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Wind/Energy

Pressure vessels for alternative fuels, 2014-2023

Lower fuel costs and escalating emissions standards are driving a 10 percent annual growth in alternative fuel pressure vessel sales.

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RTM

SPE ACCE 2014 report

Automotive composites still on the horizon — are they getting closer?

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Construction

Dual-laminates: Scaling up to scrubbers

A double-protection strategy for this massive fiberglass vessel tests pushes the limits of this shop’s fabricating and logistical planning skills.

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Camera-based ply placement cuts time, cost on complex rotorcraft parts

Applied Composites Engineering (ACE, Indianapolis, Ind.) uses PlyMatch ply placement technology from Anaglyph Ltd. (London, U.K.) to speed layup of the complex-shaped, heated inlet for a de-icing system on the AW169 helicopter, from AgustaWestland (Cascina Costa di Samarate, Italy).

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Aerospace

The best and brightest

HPC Editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan asks: How does the composites industry “sell” to students the huge range of opportunities it has to offer?

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Sustainability

IBEX 2014 Preview

After four years inland, boatbuilders head southeast to put in, dockside, in Tampa Bay.

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Aerospace

Cutting time for composites design allowables

New approach by Dr. Stephen Tsai and Daniel Melo promises to reduce the required number of tests from 1,000 to mere dozens, providing results in days vs. months and at much lower cost.

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microwire technology for composites
microwire technology for composites