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Smart composite combines ceramic strength with metal flexibility for large-scale manufacturing

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

50 years of innovation in composites

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

“It’s not just about printing composites faster, it’s about rethinking how composite parts are designed and built” Brennon Wilsey, Continuous Composites

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 ...
NextBigFuture

Reinvent Composites Manufacturing

Perseus Materials is reinventing composites manufacturing as it is currently known. Perseus Materials wants to build bigger, faster, anywhere. They are developing and applying a proprietary composite ...
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US scientists unveil 3D-printed smart composite that lets ceramics bend under load

Researchers in the US have developed a novel 3D-printed smart composite that enables brittle ceramics to bend, absorb energy, and withstand heavy mechanical loads, while being manufactured at full ...
CompositesWorld

Hybrid process marries continuous, discontinuous composites design

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 ...
JEC Composites

LOWFLIP PROJECT: Low cost flexible integrated composite process

LOWFLIP (Low cost flexible integrated composite process) project has been recently launched with a duration of 36 months and 10 partners from 5 European countries. Partly funded by the European ...
AZOM

Optimizing the Manufacturing Process of Composite Materials

Widespread in aerospace, laminated fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composites are also increasingly used in other sectors, including the automotive industry. The identification of optimal cutting ...
Purdue University

Research Areas

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

Purdue, Dupont, IACMI, Fibrtec conclude Phase 1 thermoplastic composite manufacturing research technology project

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 ...
CompositesWorld

Using multidisciplinary simulation, real-time process monitoring to improve composite pressure vessels

The use of fiber-reinforced composites in Type 3, 4 and linerless Type 5 pressure vessels is growing, used to store compressed/renewable natural gas (CNG/RNG) and hydrogen as part of the global ...