L’industrie aéronautique est en constante quête d’innovations pour concevoir des avions toujours plus performants, économes en carburant et respectueux de l’environnement. Dans cette optique, Airbus vient de franchir une étape décisive avec son...
Collins Aerospace explains how thermoplastics are integral to the company’s efforts to improve propulsion and reduce costs in aircraft manufacturing. Featured is a nacelle system that will help meet production demand of 80 aircraft per month....
A look at how emerging technologies for FRP concrete provide alternatives to traditionally used steel and glass fibers that are more cost-effective and address the sustainability challenge. Fiber use in concrete is not concept. Fibers of different types have been...
A method of welding thermoplastic composite components comprising providing first and second thermoplastic composites components (20, 24) and an interface layer (26) comprising thermoplastic between the two, disposing an external susceptor (54) adjacent to the outer...
The study proposes a novel method, named angled feeding extrusion (AFE), for material extrusion additive manufacturing (MEX AM) of discontinuous recycled carbon fibre (rCF) reinforced thermoplastic composites with high fibre efficiency. The AFE system is also...
