November 2011 Issue
November 2011
Features
Featured articles from the November 2011 issue of CompositesWorld
2011 High-Performance Resins Highlights
Attendees reviewed the current state of advanced resin technology and the tests that lay ahead for expanding composites into new applications and markets.
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Comparison of shear-loaded compression test fixtures
Dr. Donald F. Adams compares the three basic types of shear-loaded compression test fixtures.
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Our "liability" is our greatest asset
HIgh-Performance Composites' editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan questions the wisdom of wishing away, for sake of comfort and ease, the complexity of composites when that very attribute is the key to its effectiveness as an alternative to metals.
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PLM software streamlines robotic cell development
FASTCURVE and FASTTIP, part of FASTSUITE from CENIT (Stuttgart, Germany), have been used successfully by Hyde Group Holdings Ltd. (Cheshire, U.K.) to optimize composite wing manufacturing.
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Primary structure repair: The quest for quality
Composite airframes on commercial craft drive development of automated repair technology and industry-wide repair technician certification.
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Triaxial fabric wrap saves critical highway pier
The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky (Lexington, Ky.), and sister research group the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, recently completed the first bridge pier repair demonstration project to use triaxial carbon fabric.
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