Category: Industry Digest

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has created a pavilion installation, known as Flotsam & Jetsam, which is now one of the world’s largest 3D printed objects. The installations were commissioned by New York-based...

A team of researchers at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, have used graphene composites to make silly putty® conduct electricity – creating extremely sensitive sensors.  The team has been...

In its newest brochure for customers, Aliancys provides insight into co-processing, a recycling option for glass fiber reinforced thermoset composite materials. Co-processing is the simultaneous use of composite regrind...

Boeing has begun final assembly of the 787-10 Dreamliner, the latest and biggest member in the Boeing 787 family of commercial aircraft. Two major fuselage sections for the aircraft...

Composite manufacturing specialists at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) have made what some have called the world’s first reconfigurable carbon composite robotic machine tool. The...

SpaceX has completed a critical test for the carbon fiber fuel tank of its Interplanetary Transport System spaceship, which is designed to transport humans to Mars. Last month, during an...

A group of sailors known as “Team Falcon” has made history by successfully completing their mission to ‘fly on water’ across the 662-mile open ocean from New York to...

Dr. William Kaukler, a longtime NASA contractor and an associate research professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville’s (UAH) Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center, has been awarded a...

Hussam Mahmoud, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University (CSU), is leading a team that’s devising innovative repairs for steel structures in canals and...