March 2014 Issue
March 2014
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of CompositesWorld
At NAIAS, composites not difficult to find
With CAFE requirements steadily increasing each year, en route to 54.5 mpg by 2025, automakers of all stripes are working composites into new and concept cars.
Read MoreBending of composite material compression specimens
Dr. Donald F. Adams, president of Wyoming Test Fixtures (Salt Lake City, Utah) looks at the effect bending has on compression testing of composite specimens.
Read MoreCertification of bonded composite primary structures
OEMs develop technology to quantify uncertainty in pursuit of the no-bolt bondline.
Read MoreIt's time for the U.S. to invest in advanced composites manufacturing
Consultant and president of Quickstep Composites (Dayton, Ohio) Dale Brosius suggests that it’s time for an Institute for Manufacturing Innovation (IMI), created under the proposed U.S. National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI).
Read MoreLaser encoder enables highly accurate cutting of critical wingskins
To ensure machined part dimensional accuracy on Flow International Corp.’s (Kent, Wash.) new Composites Machining Center’s (CMC) gantry design, in x-axis lengths of 6 to 50m (19.5 to 162.5 ft), one of the keys is Renishaw plc’s (Gloucestershire, U.K.) HS10/HS20 laser encoder.
Read MoreOne for the history books?
HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan wonders if a current and radical proposal for change in the way aerospace materials and processes are certified — namely, certification of design/simulation software — will find the brave advocates it will need to become a watershed in aerocomposite history.
Read MoreSAMPE Europe 2014/JEC Europe 2014 Preview
The annual conclave of SAMPE’s European segment and the JEC Europe show return to Paris this spring, promising to be bigger than ever before, reflecting the industry’s post-recession resurgence.
Read MoreThe market for OOA aerocomposites, 2013-2022
In the coming decade, out-of-autoclave technologies will increase composites penetration into primary flight structures.
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