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JEC World 2022, Part 3: Emphasizing emerging markets, thermoplastics and carbon fiber
CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan identifies companies exhibiting at JEC World 2022 that are advancing both materials and technologies for the growing AAM, hydrogen, automotive and sustainability markets.
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Composite INTELLICONT Smart Container advances lean aircraft operation processes
Lightweight, structurally robust unit load device (ULD) with autonomous unloading functions reaches TRL 6 with a 40% weight reduction.
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JEC World 2022, Part 1: Highlights in sustainable, digital, industrialized composites
JEC World 2022 offered numerous new developments in composites materials, processes and applications, according to CW senior editor, Ginger Gardiner, most targeting improved sustainability for wider applications.
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Multi-flange RTM frames enable radical rear fuselage design
The Clean Sky 2 Advanced Rear End (ARE) demonstrator combines patented new frame design, thermoset and thermoplastic composites and smart tooling to advance aircraft design and cut weight, cost and production time.
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Digital design, multi-material structures enable a quieter supersonic NASA X-plane
NASA’s composites-intensive X-59 QueSST experimental aircraft is set for its first flight by the end of 2022, after nine years of design, manufacture, assembly and testing by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works.
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Cotesa GmbH selects Airborne to supply a fully automated edge sealing system
The robotic production system will automate Cotesa’s edge sealing operations for complex, 3D composite parts for the automotive and aerospace industries on-the-fly, while also maintaining accurate resin dispensing.
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ESE carbon fiber wheels launch to aftermarket segment
The E2 wheels, built from a combination of tailored fiber placement preforming with resin transfer molding, are available for select vehicles after passing stringent lab and field testing.
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Difficult Materials Make Automated Fabric Cutting More Indispensable than Ever
With lingering supply chain shortages, difficult-to-cut materials like Kevlar and many others demand a more accurate and efficient cutting process. Automated cutting is the answer.
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Must-have capabilities in a large-format additive manufacturing machine
Thermwood’s Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing (LSAM) system comes equipped with many features that make fabrication of large fiber-reinforced polymer parts and structures fast, efficient and accurate.
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JEC World 2022 day 1 recap
ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ comes at you from Paris, France, as its editors navigate the landscape that is the first in-person JEC World trade show since 2019.
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Airborne introduces Automated Ply Placement technology at JEC World 2022
Automated, accurate and fully integrated preforming process maximizes design freedom of composite laminates, expands material options.
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KVE INDUCT: Welding a torsion box demonstrator
To meet sustainability targets and market demands, the aerospace industry is searching for alternative joining methods. Automated assembly of thermoplastic composite structures by induction welding offers a solution. (Sponsored)
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