Solar Decathlon Winning Design Gains Strength from Composites

Students from the Stevens Institute of Technology recently won the 2015 Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon with its SURE HOUSE – a solar-powered home made with composites repurposed from boatbuilding […]

Ascent Aerospace to Manufacture Largest Wing Skin Molds Ever

Last week, Coast Composites LLC, an Ascent Tooling Group company, announced it won a contract from Boeing to manufacture the largest-ever wing skin molds for the Boeing 777X. According to […]

AMRC 3-D Printed Composite Drones on Display in London

Three 3-D printed drones designed by Chris Green and manufactured by The University Of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre’s (AMRC) Design and Prototyping Group (DPG) are now on display as part […]

BMW Uses CFRP to Cut Weight From New M4 GTS

Last week, via an Oct. 7 press release, BMW introduced its 2016 M4 GTS – the first production road car in the world to feature a water-injection system. The system […]

LAPD to Test BMW’s Carbon Fiber i3 for 12 Months

BMW announced it will loan its electric i3 car to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for evaluation over the next 12 months. The evaluation will mark the i3’s first […]

Port of Port Angeles Moves Forward on Composite Recycling Technology Center

The Port of Port Angeles, Wash. is moving forward with plans to launch a Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC) at the composites manufacturing campus in Port Angeles, Wash. The Port reviewed […]

Miami Students Replace Steel in “Fate Bridge” with GFRP

After extensive laboratory research on glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) as internal reinforcement of concrete, graduate students at the University of Miami are working with Moss Construction Management to substitute […]

Air Force Wants Composites to Replace Titanium in Military Aircraft

According to a recent press release from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, the Air Force Small Business Innovation/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) has provided PROOF Research’s Advanced Composites Division with $750,000 to […]

Composite Structural Connections

Composite Structural Connections As the polymer composites industry continues to grow, questions arise concerning connections between composites and between composites and other materials such as metals, wood, concrete or plastics. […]

Composites Gain Face Time

Inside, it’s a typical upscale apartment building. Outside, the newly completed Swanston Square mixed-use tower in Melbourne is not ordinary at all. Viewed from a distance, the building’s southern façade reveals […]