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Aircraft interior bins benefit from fast-heat, fast-cool tool
3/1/2008

Airbus Industrie (Toulouse, France) wanted to cut cycle time off the production of interior storage bin doors for its A320 and A380 commercial airplanes and identified part cooling in the mold as the most likely source of potential time savings. The doors, about 1m long, are fabricated of a glass fiber prepregged with

Carbon/BMI and carbon foam form Invar alternative
1/1/2008

For years, Invar steel has been the material of choice for tooling that must endure repeated autoclave cycling in volume part production. Invar's disadvantage is its relatively high density and resulting large mass. As processors move away from hand layup and toward automated fiber and tape placement, there is a

Corvette converts floor panels, wheelhousings from glass to chopped carbon
12/1/2005

Epoxy bones making stand in medical field
11/1/2005

As joint replacement surgery becomes more common, the need for artificial joint implants is great. Pacific Research Laboratories Inc. (Vashon, Wash.) has produced artificial bones for medical schools for 25 years and is now infusing parts for implant testing, using epoxy systems from Huntsman Advanced Materials (East

Collapsible mandrel enables full-barrel fiber placement
7/1/2005

FUBACOMP (Full Barrel Composite Fuselage), a European consortium, is developing technology that will enable automated fiber placement of a one-piece business jet fuselage. Advanced Composites Group Ltd. (ACG, Heanor, Derbyshire, U.K.) recently designed and built a 4.5m/14.6-ft long by 2m/6.5-ft diameter

Pocket Boom improves mainsail handling
3/1/2005

Designed to make yacht mainsail handling simpler and easier, GMT Composites' (Bristol, R.I.) Park Avenue Pocket Boom doubles as mainsail foundation and sail container. Unlike conventional mainsail booms, the Pocket Boom, as its name implies, is a open-ended, three-sided structure with a flat-bottomed "U" shape in

Sprayable Core Material Doubles As Marine Tooling Putty
10/1/2004

A derivative of its barrier coat and core materials, a specially formulated syntactic from ITW SprayCore (Clearwater, Fla., U.S.A.) now serves as the tooling surface for Vectorworks Marine Inc.'s (Titusville, Fla., U.S.A.) new toolmaking "shortcut" called Limited Production Tooling (LPT). Production timeframes and

Fiberglass architectural elements restore Ferry Building
8/1/2003

In a city filled with memorable landmarks, perhaps the most enduring is San Francisco's Ferry Building. A recent $90 million refurbishment included fiberglass architectural elements fabricated by Kreysler & Assoc. (American Canyon, Calif., U.S.A.) Completed in 1898 as the passenger terminus for the bay's ferry

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