October 2006 Issue

October

October 2006

Cover Story

RIM Molding for Wind Blade Skins

Low-cost, high-volume molding method and carbon fiber/epoxy spar show promise for replacement wind turbine blades.

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Features

Featured articles from the October 2006 issue of CompositesWorld

Autoclave

Composites in Boat Accessories and Hardware

All the stuff that goes inside, stem to stern.

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Sustainability

Glass-Reinforced Thermoplastic Succeeds in Car Crash Structure

Thermoformable, recyclable composite yields production-worthy front-end structure.

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IBEX Show Preview - 10/1/2006

Boatbuilders attending the annual exhibition will again find composites industry exhibitors located in a specially dedicated composites pavilion.

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The ABCs of FEA

The ABCs of FEA

Computerized and adapted for composites, finite element analysis reduces R&D expense and shortens time to market.

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Tooling Paste Reduces Wind Blade Model Production Time

When Vostermans Tooling and Prototyping BV (Venlo, The Netherlands) wanted to reduce production time for its large wind blade master models, the company turned to computer-aided designs and CNC-machinable modeling paste. Vostermans selected RenPaste 4503R/Ren 4503H seamless epoxy modeling paste from Huntsman Advanced

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