Altair database center offers comprehensive material information
By: Grace Nehls
The Altair Material Database Center contain thousands of high-quality materials including polymers, metals and composites, directly connected to Altair’s and other major solvers.
Avient launches reSound R recycled content portfolios
By: Grace Nehls
Formerly PolyOne, Avient expands the range of sustainable solutions with its thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), polyamide and polycarbonate portfolios.
Lanxess thermoplastic material targets high flame-retardant properties
By: Grace Nehls
Tepex continuous-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites variants with a PA6 matrix are certified as UL 94 V-0 and retain a high degree of strength, rigidity and energy absorption.
Bally Ribbon Mill develops advanced woven textile products
By: Grace Nehls
The company offers its woven E-Webbings and TPCM thermoplastic materials to increase part functionality and utility for a variety of industries.
#weaving
VisiConsult launches high-precision CT system
By: Grace Nehls
The modular device is a highly customizable system designed to precisely inspect a wide variety of test parts.
Large-format additive manufacturing
By: Jeff Sloan
Thermwood presents its Large Scale Additive Manufacturing (LSAM) system, designed to quickly fabricate large fiber-reinforced polymer structures for a variety of applications.
Veelo Technologies increases metallized nonwoven conductivity
By: Grace Nehls
Lowered resistivity from 5-10 mOHM to 3 mOHM with a 10% weight penalty improves conductivity of metallized nonwoven VeeloVEIL.
The meaning of next-generation
By: Jeff Sloan
When the past becomes the present and the present becomes the future, the future starts looking a lot like the past. Got that?
#editorial
Braided preforms meet phase-change tooling
By: Hannah Mason
A program from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory adopts automated braiding and phase-change tooling for a complex geometry unmanned aircraft part.
#trends
Oli46 Resin Blocker maintains infusion vacuum level
By: Grace Nehls
Technical flange is designed to avoid resin waste up to 80%, improve surface finish and save on cost and production time.
Mandrel solutions for trapped & complex geometry composites
By: Jeff Sloan
Smart Tooling explains how its shape memory polymer material can be used as a rigid layup mandrel, go through a cure process, elevated to elastic temperature, removed and reformed for re-use.
#layup
Moving forward on the Multifunctional Fuselage Demonstrator (MFFD)
By: Hannah Mason
Clean Sky 2’s MFFD program continues to move toward its goal of delivering a welded, thermoplastic composite fuselage demonstrator using next-generation manufacturing processes.
#cleansky #nextgenaerospace #feature
