Category: Columns

At the 2016 London Motor Show, Wales-based eco-car manufacturer Riversimple debuted its signature hydrogen-powered car, the two-seat Rasa, which features fiberglass body panels and a carbon fiber composite chassis...

The United States Department of Defense’s Future Vertical Lift Program has been working to develop a new generation of improved vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft for the U.S....

According to a new report from The American Jobs Report, Virginia is in a position to “expand its CFRP composites economy, increase in-state spending, and employ an average of...

The Making of Glass Fiber Engineered minerals are melted in high-temperature, firebrick lined furnaces, refined to allow volatile materials to escape the “melt.” The melt flows out of the...

Boeing has filed a patent for a new technology that 3-D prints artificial composites that look like ice blocks so they can attach to aircraft wings and other surfaces...

Last week, GE Aviation announced it has begun ground testing the world’s largest commercial aircraft engine – the GE9X – that will eventually power Boeing’s 777X aircraft. Once finished,...

The U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) unveiled the Sea Hunter – a robotic, autonomous war ship being tested for the Navy that features a...

At the 2016 SAE World Congress in Detroit, Toyota and Clemson University unveiled “uBox” – an urban utility, futuristic concept vehicle made with composites. The uBox was the result...

Four researchers from different universities collaborated to create rolyPOLY – a unique flexible shelter produced by robotic winding of carbon fibers. The 20-pound, single-occupant CFRP prototype is seen as...