The past year has seen a lot of technology breakthroughs in engineering composites, especially those aimed at lowering cost and boosting processing speed of carbon composites for volume manufacturing, ...

UD's Center for Composite Materials reflects on a legacy of innovation and charts a course for the next half-century ...

Since his postdoctoral days at MIT, Hang Yu, associate professor of materials science and engineering, has been wrestling ...

Thermoplastic composites manufacturing and smart preforming enables “one-minute” manufacturing of composite parts. In addition, thermoplastic composites are easier to recycle than their thermoset ...

Figure 1. Ultrasonic testing using pulse echo and through-transmission methods. Pulse echo (left and center) uses a transducer that sends and receives ultrasound energy, producing both A- and B-scan ...

Hybrid manufacturing technique. 9T Labs has developed a hybrid manufacturing technique using its Additive Fusion Technology (AFT), positioning continuous fiber preforms in high-stress regions of a ...

Orbital Composites (Orbital), a pioneer in Robotic Additive Manufacturing of Continuous-Fiber Composites, has announced the exclusive licensing of a breakthrough technology co-developed with Oak Ridge ...

The material-interface-structure-function/performance coupled design method and the additive/formative/subtractive composite manufacturing method provide new ...

Continuous Composites’ CF3D fuses continuous-fibre steering, instant UV curing and an automated, anisotropy-aware design workflow into a full-stack platform. The result: near-net composite components ...

University of Illinois researchers 3D print flat carbon-fiber structures that morph into curved satellite components in space ...