November 2004 Issue

November

November 2004

EMCs provide tougher alternative to shape-memory alloys and plastics
Cover Story

EMCs provide tougher alternative to shape-memory alloys and plastics

Composites Technology Development Inc. (CTD, Lafayette, Colo., U.S.A.) has developed TEMBO Shape Memory Polymers, elastic memory composites (EMCs) that are less dense and about one-fifth the weight of shape-memory metal alloys but deliver greater strength than other shape-memory plastics. "Most people think of

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Features

Featured articles from the November 2004 issue of CompositesWorld

Abrasive machining methods for composites
Adhesives

Abrasive machining methods for composites

Cutting, routing and drilling are important post-processing steps for cured composite parts.

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Anisotropic wind blade design expected to reduce wind-energy costs
Adhesives

Anisotropic wind blade design expected to reduce wind-energy costs

Deliberately unbalanced laminate produces smoother power input from adaptive wind blades

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Are high-temp thermosets ready to go commercial?
Weaving

Are high-temp thermosets ready to go commercial?

Developed for the U.S. military, these high-performance matrices are branching out into wider use.

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Composite speed sailboat readied to break 50-knot barrier
Wind/Energy

Composite speed sailboat readied to break 50-knot barrier

Sailrocket (Bitterne Manor, Southampton, U.K.) is using new design concepts and composites to make its Sailrocket speed sailboat, in hopes of breaking the existing speed record of 46.25 knots (the goal is 50 knots). Its unique counterfoil design bypasses the stability problems encountered by monohulls and multihulls.

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