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Compression molding with structural carbon SMC
Aircraft weapon system gains the high performance of carbon/epoxy with the efficiency of compression molding.
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Composites on the frontlines
Armored vehicle applications on the ground and in the air fuel a growing, evolving market forhigh-performance materials.
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Carbon fiber raises consumer performance index
Carbon bridges gap between large-volume sporting goods and aerospace to satisfy discriminating tastes in consumer and professional markets.
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Hurricane And Tornado Protection Offered By In-home Shelter
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (Wilmington, Del., U.S.A.) has introduced a new residential protection product called StormRoom, for shelter from hurricanes and tornados. The StormRoom is designed to withstand wind speeds as high as 250 mph and to deflect debris, such as flying wood timbers, moving at 100 mph. Since
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Composites Aboard High-Speed Trains
Greater demand for weight reduction and aerodynamics put railcar manufacturers on track to greater and more extensive use of composites.
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Composites Cut Costs Of Repairing Corrosion-Prone Systems
Composites materials and processing methods extend the useful life of noncomposite structures in industrial and infrastructure systems.
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Designing-in Corrosion Resistance
The most cost-effective way to prevent corrosion is to select corrosion-resistant materials.
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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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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?
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
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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Abrasive machining methods for composites
Cutting, routing and drilling are important post-processing steps for cured composite parts.
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