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20 High-Performance
composites for aircraft
Interiors conference
Review
Colocated with the aircraft Interiors
Expo americas, CompositesWorld���s
interiors conference focused on
ways to get more composites inside
the aircraft.
By Karen Wood
5 from the editor
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HPC editor-in-chief jeff Sloan
suggests we say goodbye to $5/lb
carbon ���ber and expect that composites will earn their way onto
autos by saving drivers money.
7 Market trends
advanced materials analyst ross
Kozarsky looks at composites and
competing metals in the multimaterial car of the future.
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10 testing tech
Dr. Donald F. adams revisits the
topic of global test standardization,
suggesting a simple but unlikely ���x
to the lack of harmonization.
26 a400M Wing assembly:
challenge of Integrating
composites
24 Work in Progress
The Atlas military aircraft���s decade of
development has lighted the path for
airbus wing development on the
a350 and future programs.
HPC editor-in-chief jeff Sloan details recent testing that gauged the
comparative ef���ciency of electric,
oil-based and water-based mold
temperature control systems.
By jeff Sloan
32 an impec-cable bike
frame: Handmade by
Machine
Long on technology ���rsts, this automated and optimized manufacturing
process produces nothing short of
the ���perfect��� bike frame
By Ginger Gardiner
DePaRtMents
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46 bi-angle fabrics find
first commercial
application
Braid produced by a unique radial braiding technology, developed by August
Herzog Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co.
KG (Oldenburg, Germany), enables the
fabrication of bike frame tubes with varying cross-sections and seamless transitions between locally optimized ���ber
patterns on the impec racing bike frame
(see p. 32) developed by Bicycle Manufacturing Company (BMC, Grenchen,
Switzerland).
a California-based bicycle manufacturer sees dramatic productivity
gains using unbalanced carbon ���ber
fabrics developed under the leadership of Dr. Stephen Tsai.
By Sara Black
Source: BMC
january 2013
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