CompositesWorld

Lightweight honeycomb increases strength and damage tolerance of composite structures. Frank Monaco and Ryan Civalier of Hexcel Corporation will cover a range of honeycomb products in their webinar on May 9. They'll also explain how to best select the right honeycomb for particular applications and walk you through design guidelines for honeycomb-cored structures. Register today at: https://lnkd.in/gJWH3eAs ____ #composites #honeycomb #aerospace

Bold Valuable Technology, a prominent player in the high-performance battery industry, has developed a high-voltage battery system called BOLDair, specifically designed to cater to the unique requirements of electric and hybrid aircraft drive applications. The battery system’s #composite enclosure, compression structures and thermal runaway management enables high-performance electric energy storage. ____ #focusondesign #electricaircraft #batteries 

"As we toured the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, I found myself looking at a placard discussing the increasing use of composites in commercial airliners. It was only a brief blurb outlining the progression of composites use to date, with a discussion of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and various aspects of Airbus A350, but there it was; I pulled my kids over to read it. We’d go through exhibits on space exploration and the moon landing, and I found myself secretly noting each mentioned use of composites and ticking off a mental list of company names for various aspects of each piece of equipment." — Scott Francis, CW editor-in-chief When you’re a tourist with a background in writing for #manufacturing it’s impossible not to notice all of the ways in which #composites have impacted significant milestones in the U.S. — historically and in the present

This isn't an exact before and after series, but the May 2024 Post Cure does feature two phases in the sequence of creating something that is quite...moving. What do you see in the images? Take your best guess at material, process and/or final application. The answer is on page 48 of the May issue of CompositesWorld, viewable now at 👉https://lnkd.in/g-Vc9Qry ____ #CWPostCure #composites #manufacturing

Speak at Carbon Fiber 2024! Share your knowledge with a global audience of carbon fiber users in emerging industrial markets, such as wind energy, marine, and construction — and in traditional markets, like aerospace and sporting goods. Submit your abstract by May 15 at: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eaPuRvv 👈 ____ #composites #CF2024 #carbonfiber #windenergy #marineindustry #construction #aerospace #sportinggoods

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems demonstrates a path forward for the use of additive manufacturing technologies for composite tooling, flight-qualified parts. “First we demonstrated to ourselves, then to our management, and later to key customers, the many, often compounding, benefits that additive technology can bring to programs — not just during the prototyping phase but also as low-rate initial production [LRIP] gets underway,” explains Steve Fournier, senior manager of GA-ASI's Additive Designs & Manufacturing Center of Excellence. ___ #composites #tooling #defense #aerospace

Marina-Elena Inhestern is a chemical engineer who specializes in coatings and adhesive application. On Monday, April 29, she'll lead the third and final webinar in a series from Evonik on composites manufacturing processes. 🔸 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gVJRTWKR 🔸 Join Marina-Elena as she explains the two main processes to manufacture semi-finished goods and the resulting composites: sheet molding compounding (SMC) and prepreg technology. Her presentation will highlight the advantages and challenges. It will also showcase product recommendations from Evonik's portfolio and how they can be used to enhance the performance of the final composite materials to meet the requirements from the #automotive, #aerospace and #sportinggoods industries. ___ #composites #prepreg #compositesmanufacturing

Carbon fiber baseball bats have been around for quite a while, but Rawlings Sporting Goods shares the design and manufacturing process for one of its most ambitious composite bats yet – a two-piece design made with dry braided fabrics via resin transfer molding. #composites #sportinggoods #baseballbats #baseball #RTM

"From the CW Archives: The life and death of the BMW i3" Take a look back at the ambitious and impressive composites production system BMW developed for production of the all-electric i3 EV: https://lnkd.in/gbeh_-Eu ___ #composites #EV #BMWi3 #i3 #RTM

If you listen to the BBC's Glued Up: The Sticky Story of Humanity, you might have recognized Ginger Gardiner's voice on the episode titled "How glues helped us fly." Ginger, CW senior technical editor, joined host Mark Miodownik for a look at composites' impact on aircraft design. Listen here: 👉 https://lnkd.in/gntar5Ca 👈 Ginger's segment begins at the 9:34 mark. ____ #composites #aircraftdesign #aerospace #BBCsounds #BBCRadio4 #Radio4