Institut fuer Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (IVW)
Erwin-Schroedinger-Str. 58
Kaiserslautern
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67663
DE
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As Seen In CompositesWorld
The markets: Automotive (2021)
Composites continue measured growth as the global automotive industry, driven by zero-emissions goals toward increased electrification, seeks to reduce vehicle weight and improve performance.
Automated aerocomposites production: Liquid molding or welded thermoplastic?
Two materials and process approaches are demonstrated for CFRP bulkhead production.
Continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics data added to CAMPUS database
The new data, which will be released in October, is the result of an ongoing material standardization and characterization effort led by German reinforced plastics company AVK.
Automated joining of hybrid metal-thermoplastic composite structures
The FlexHyJoin production cell combines surface structuring, induction and laser joining and NDT for automotive mass production.
Aerospace-grade compression molding
Continuous Compression Molding process produces structures 30 percent lighter than aluminum at costs that have both Airbus and Boeing sold.
- Autoclaves, lab size
- Automatic tape layers
- Continuous laminating machines
- Extruders
- Automated fiber placement machines
- Filament winding machines and software controls
- Preform manufacturing equipment
- Resin transfer molding equipment (RTM)
- Presses
- Presses, compression molding
- Presses, hydraulic
- Presses, laminating
- Presses, thermoforming/pressure forming
- Auxiliary processing equipment
- Bonding equipment
- Fiber-handling equipment for SMC, pultrusion, filament
- Process controls
- Robotic handling equipment
- Temperature control devices
- Welding equipment for thermoplastics
- Winders/rewinders
- Stitching equipment
- Impregnation lines
- Impregnation lines, film-based
- Impregnation lines, hot melt
- Impregnation lines, powder
- Compression-after-impact testers
- Cure-monitoring equipment
- Fatigue-testing equipment
- Flammability/smoke testers
- Flexural testers
- Flow meters
- Hardness testers
- Impact-testing equipment
- Mechanical test fixtures
- Melt-flow indexers
- Modeling/simulation/virtual testing software
- Rheological testing equipment
- Software for infusion flow analysis
- Surface analyzers
- Temperature monitoring equipment
- Tensile testers
- Thermal analysis instruments
- Thickness measuring equipment
- Universal test frames
- Viscosity measurement equipment
- Other testing equipment
- NDI equipment
- NDI equipment, ultrasonic
- NDI equipment, X-ray
- Other fabricating services
- Thermoplastic materials
- Automatic tape laying
- Compression molding
- Continuous laminating
- Fiber placement
- Filament winding
- Hand layup
- Pressure forming
- Prototyping
- Reaction injection molding (RIM)
- Resin transfer molding (RTM)
- Textile processing for composites (braiding, stitching,
- Vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM)
- Welding and sealing
- Other thermoplastics fabricating services
- Thermoset materials
- Autoclave cure
- Compression molding
- Cutting, finishing, and machining
- Fiber placement
- Filament winding
- Hand layup
- Honeycomb structures
- Pressure forming
- Prototyping
- Reaction injection molding (RIM)
- Resin transfer molding (RTM)
- Surface treatment
- Vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM)
- Welding and sealing
- Other thermoset fabricating services
- Aerospace, radomes
- Automotive, body panels & substructures
- Automotive, underhood
- Carbon/carbon composites
- Laminate panels, with core
- Laminate sheets, solid
- Marine, other
- Pressure vessels
- Profiles
- Rebar
- Rods
- Tubes
- Wood plastic composite fencing, decking & railing
- Other composite structures
- CAD/CAM/CAE design
- Finite element modeling/analysis (FEM/FEA)
- Materials analysis
- Product design
- Structural health monitoring equipment (turnkey systems
- Other services
- Consulting
- Consulting, materials
- Consulting, process development
- Consulting, structual design
- Testing
- Testing, environmental
- Testing, materials
- Testing, product
- Testing, structural