Utilities are now strategically deploying composite poles in critical, remote, and environmentally stressed locations, driven ...
“Self-responsive” nanomaterial-based composites AMRC’s Matthew Collinson (top photo) inspects a composite demonstrator component incorporating carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and copper contacts to enable ...
May 7, 2005 Inflatable structures (aka airbeams) have developed rapidly in recent times, finding application in a variety of new engineering projects ranging from military tents in Iraq and ...
Fig. 1. Hand-machined scarf through three plies of CF unidirectional (UD) tape and one ply of CF plain woven fabric at 0.5-inch (nominal) distance per ply. Note the small amount of breakthrough at the ...
Shakespeare Composite Structures™ has introduced the first full-scale tested composite distribution pole designed to absorb the energy of vehicular impact during collision. The new product can reduce ...
Wenbin Yu, Purdue University researcher and AnalySwift chief technology officer, led a project to launch CompositesAI. The platform leverages AI so users can design and analyze composite materials and ...
Engineers have long sought ways to fabricate three-dimensional structures from flat stock materials without ...