Acsion Industries, a company born out of the Canadian atomic energy organisation, is developing composite materials processing technologies for the next generation of high speed passenger aeroplanes, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the U.S. Department of Energy driven consortium committed to ...

Innovative optical methods in laser processing are revolutionizing thermoset composite fabrication, ensuring faster, cleaner, ...

Engineers have succeeded in fabricating a nickel single crystal with only a very few crystalline defects by irradiating nickel powder with a large-radius, flat-top laser beam (i.e., a laser beam whose ...

The Multifunctional Fuselage Demonstrator (MFFD) program was conceived in 2014 as one of three large aircraft demonstrators within the EU-funded Clean Sky 2 (CS2) initiative (now Clean Aviation) aimed ...

This design is optimised for all frequency bands used in mmWave telecommunications. As well as enhancing the performance of existing 5G technology, the layered manufacturing technique also provides ...

PlyMatch™ uses augmented reality to show the live combined images of actual and target ply outlines and fibre orientation details on a monitor, so that the two can be matched by the operator. PlyMatch ...

Laser cleaning systems are increasingly being used by composites part manufacturers to clean production molds, offering increased efficiency and reduced cost while also improving the environmental ...

A unique manufacturing technique from Marc Quenneville combines vacuum infusion with rotational molding, which he says no one has thought of doing before. The process completely eliminates the seam ...