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Composite Materials Give Summer Olympians and Paralympians a Competitive Edge

July 23, 2021

The Olympic motto – Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter in Latin and Higher, Stronger, Faster – Together in English, has historically applied to the performance of the Olympic and...

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Carbon Fiber Prepregs Used in Lightweight Camera Drone

July 16, 2021

A team of six students in the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria’s lightweight construction and composite materials course worked with eight industrial partners to design and build a camera drone over an...

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NASA Developing an Advanced Composite Solar Sail System for Future Space Missions

July 09, 2021

A team at NASA’s Langley Research Center, with partners from NASA Ames Research Center, NanoAvionics, and Santa Clara University’s Robotics Systems Lab, is developing a deployable lightweight composite boom and solar sail system for...

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Clean Sky’s SHERLOC Program Using Integrated Sensors to Monitor Composites

July 02, 2021

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has many potential benefits for the aviation industry, including that it is non-destructive testing that could improve damage detection in composite structures, add safety to commercial aircraft, and based on the...

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Lightweight Motorcycle Helmet Developed with Fiber-Reinforced Composites

June 25, 2021

The team at Helicoid Industries saw the need for a lighter, stronger motorcycle helmet to enhance safety and performance for both consumer riders and competitive racers. The lighter helmet...

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Sustainable Composites Used to Manufacture Wheelchair Seat Pan Concept

June 18, 2021

Motivation is a global disability charity that provides wheelchairs, training, and services to disabled people in low- and middle-income countries. More than 75 million people worldwide need a wheelchair,...

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Lockheed Martin and GM Extending Lunar Exploration with Autonomous Moon Rovers

June 11, 2021

Lockheed Martin and General Motors are working together to develop lunar rovers to allow Artemis astronauts to explore the 95% of the Moon’s surface that has as of yet...

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GE Developing Controls to Support 12 MW Offshore Wind Turbines

June 04, 2021

Partnering with Glosten, a design and consulting firm in the marine industry, and PelaStar, developer of the tension-leg platform floating wind turbine foundation, GE is designing and developing controls...

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Electric Scooter 3D Printed of Continuous Carbon Fiber Thermoplastic Composite

June 01, 2021

Using Arevo’s continuous industrial grade thermoplastic carbon fiber composite materials, Branch Creative designed the Scotsman electric scooter with both urban commuters and recreational riders in mind. Thanks to the...

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Continuous Composites 3D Printed Power Generator Components for Siemens Energy

May 21, 2021

The use of Continuous Composites’ proprietary Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D) process allowed Siemens energy to replace a metallic generator component with a component built of composite materials. In...

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