Materials Testing
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team to include sustainable carbon fiber for 2025 Formula 1 season
F1 team has taken first steps to qualify and apply sustainable composites into its W16 race car with help and innovation from industry partners and the FIA.
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Carbon fiber/flax landing gear achieves 54% weight reduction via tailored layup optimization
Fuko’s Biogear showcases how strategic composite material distribution and natural fiber damping properties can lightweight and enhance critical aerospace structure performance.
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Schrödinger advances materials informatics for faster development of next-gen composites
Cutting time to market by multiple orders of magnitude, machine learning and physics-based approaches are combined to open new possibilities for innovations in biomaterials, fire-resistant composites, space applications, hydrogen tanks and more.
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Determining steel/composite failure load of bonded repair assemblies
Bureau Veritas and partners use a novel equivalent interface test specimen and simulation to predict failure load in bonded composite patch repairs to steel structures.
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Radalytica advances multimodal 3D robotic scanner for composites, future aircraft inspection
Radalytica continues to develop its RadalyX nondestructive testing (NDT) system, merging diverse imaging methodologies for inspection in laboratories to aircraft hangars.
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ORNL demonstrates lightning strike protection tech for composites
Researchers, led by Vipin Kumar, developed a low-cost, recyclable carbon fiber wind turbine blade tip that showed resilience to high-voltage lightning strikes, with more innovations in store.
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The evolution, transformation of DEA from lab measurements to industrial optimization
Over the years, dielectric analysis (DEA) has evolved from a lab measurement technique to a technology that improves efficiency and quality in composites production on the shop floor.
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Proving thermoplastic composites match carbon fiber/epoxy performance in road bikes
CDCQ, LxSim, Addcomp and Argon 18 collaborate to optimize a carbon fiber/PA6 bike seat post, democratizing AFP and demonstrating materials and process for future designs and production.
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University of Bristol launches composite materials to space for ISS testing
Next-gen carbon fiber materials will be tested under extreme conditions for 12-18 months to determine their viability in space for use in future space bases, interplanetary travel.
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Asahi Kasei launches cloud-based CAE platform for FRP deformation prediction
An on-demand mapping tool for anisotropic materials and polymer material fracture prediction model, i-Lupe, aims to help predict impact, crash behaviors.
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