composite materials

  Toray supplies HiCAM project with thermoset, thermoplastic prepreg technologies Toray  (Tokyo, Japan), a global company offering innovative technologies and advanced high-performance materials, is among the list of composite material suppliers that are members of the  NASA Advanced Composites Consortium  (ACC) and are supporting NASA’s (Washington, D.C., U.S.)  Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing  (HiCAM) project. The ACC is a public-private partnership which includes NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), select aerospace and materials companies, and academia that supports the HiCAM project. The project seeks to dramatically improve the manufacturing rates of composite airframe structures for future single-aisle commercial aircraft manufactured in the U.S. Its approach includes the use of high-rate composite technologies to improve production rates and cost without sacrificing weight and performance attributes. “The HiCAM pr...

  Researchers Create Stretchable, Composite Layered 2D Materials Composite 2D materials are composed of atom-thick layers of a hard material, such as graphene or MXene — typically a transition metal carbide, nitride, or carbonitride — divided by layers of something to bind the layers together. While big portions of graphene or MXenes have bulk properties, the resilience of 2D composites comes from interfacial properties. He also mentioned that the materials could have distinctive thermal conduction regimes or properties that dispersed heat more firmly in one direction than at 90°. The findings of this study were published in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  on July 25 th , 2022. Demirel says, “ This material would be great for insoles for running shoes .  It could cool the foot and the repeated flexing would not break the insole .” These two-dimensional composites have the potential to be used for flexible circuit boards, wearable devices, and ot...

  Adamant Composites, Levidian partner to develop graphene-enhanced composite materials Levidian Nanosystems  (Cambridge, U.K.) and  Adamant Composites Ltd.  (Patra, Greece), which has expertise in the design of large, deployable structures, and the use of composite and nano-enabled materials in applications such as batteries, hydrogen storage tanks, UAVs airframes and deployable structure subsystems, have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) to collaborate on enhancing composite materials with Levidian’s graphene. Over the next three years, each company will leverage its specialist understanding of advanced materials to incorporate Levidian’s sustainable graphene in a range of composite materials. The addition of graphene to composite materials and components will reportedly lead to improved process times while augmenting physical properties. More specifically, the JDA will focus on the unique properties of graphene, leading to innovat...

  Sustainable Composite Materials Used to Build Wild Water Kayak A team of 19 graduates, apprentices, and year-in-industry students at the National Composites Centre (NCC) worked together to imagine, design, and manufacture a wild water kayak built from sustainable composite materials.    Jacob Holmes, a graduate research engineer at the NCC, and a member of the senior Great Britain wild water kayak team for five years, explained how the concept for the project came to be. “The idea for the project came about after the rules for wild water racing kayak dimensions changed this year,” said Mr. Holmes. “There is now no minimum width, and whilst this development has been slow over decades, it is potentially set for rapid change. There are currently no white-water racing kayaks made in the UK and there is no end-of-life solution for them either. We thought this would be a great challenge for our team of young engineers to work together on.”   Focused on new materials with...

  Composite materials illuminated with machine learning Composite materials having two or more dissimilar components can be used in many areas of modern science and technology. One of the most important applications they have is in optics, where these materials are enabling future miniaturization of lenses, lasers, and detectors — the basic technologies that underly telecommunications, imaging, and sensing. To find an optical composite structure appropriate for a given problem, scientists must know how light propagates in the material, but solving the equations of optics in a multilayer medium is difficult both analytically and numerically. In a recent study published in  Advanced Photonics Research , researchers developed a machine learning-based technique that can cope with problems of this kind very efficiently, computing the light rays’ trajectories in a given composite material. How to teach machines Machine learning is a data analysis method that allows software to learn...

  The Native Lab adds two online live sessions to self-paced Composite Materials course To improve and consolidate the learning process in composites,  The Native Lab  (TNL, Madrid, Spain),  Managing Composites ’ training division, has decided to add two online live sessions to its self-paced “ Composite Materials ” training course. “We have realized that self-paced courses adapt very well to different time schedules students might have. Still, having a direct interaction with the instructors is something our students value,” Tommaso Muellejans says, responsible for TNL. “The idea is to launch the sessions in September, giving those who have recently joined time during the summer to go through the materials in order to make the most out of the live sessions. Of course, both sessions will be recorded in case students cannot participate live.” The course consists of three main blocks. The first block discusses composite mate...

  National Composites Centre supports marine industry in bid to tackle composites recycling challenge The  National Composites Centre  (NCC, Bristol, U.K.) is supporting a new consortium that has been formed to address the growing challenge of decarbonization and recycling of composite materials in the marine industry and beyond, with a long-term aim to create the U.K.’s first large-scale glass fiber-reinforced (GRP) and fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) recycling and reuse facility. Here partners will not only look at the process of recycling composite materials but also how the reclaimed materials and fibers could be repurposed for use in new composite components, such as boats, caravans, wind turbine blades and other high-performing products. Made up of leading marine and maritime companies in the U.K., composites specialists, academic institutions and local government organizations, and led by marine consultancy Blue Parameters (Guernsey, U.K.), the “Blue...

  The Metal Matrix Composite Market Growth To See Substantial Impact From Powder Metallurgy Demand The Business Research Company’s Metal Matrix Composite Market 2022 – Opportunities And Strategies – Global Forecast To 2030 LONDON, GREATER LONDON, UK, July 8, 2022 / EINPresswire.com / -- Powder metallurgy is the most widely used technology to manufacture metal matrix composites. According to the TBRC estimates, powder metallurgy technology contributed a revenue share of 44.8% in the overall market in 2020. This high demand is attributed to increased adoption of hot pressing, ball mill mixing, extrusion, and vacuum pressing technology to manufacture metal matrix composite. Additionally, its compatibility with various materials and the increasing demand for powder metallurgically produced MMC products from industries, such as aerospace and ground transportations, are expected to drive the MMC market in powder metallurgy production technology. Thus, increased demand of powder metallurg...

  How Can Pineapple Leaf Fibers be Used in Polymer Composites? A group of researchers recently published a paper in the journal  Polymers  that demonstrated the feasibility of using natural fibers, specifically pineapple leaf fiber (PALF), for the fabrication of polymer composites. Study:  Potentiality of Utilizing Woven Pineapple Leaf Fibre for Polymer Composites.  Image Credit: Ekky Ilham/Shutterstock.com Background Natural fiber-reinforced polymer composites (NFRPCs) are considered an eco-friendly alternative to synthetic fiber-reinforced composite materials. These composites also possess several other advantages, such as superior mechanical properties, lower density, and affordability. Warp and weft direction of woven PALF-reinforced epoxy composites. Image Credit: Hadi, A.E. et al., Polymers Moreover, the use of natural fibers to prepare composite materials can enhance sustainability by decreasing energy consumption, owing to the low den...

  Monash Motorsport constructs FSAE autonomous, electric vehicle with ATL Composites materials As creativity and construction are revving up at  Monash Motorsport , a student-run team in Clayton, Australia, who compete in some of the world’s largest engineering design competitions in vehicle design,  ATL Composites  (Molendinar, Australia) has become an important contributor of its composite products for the team’s ground-breaking designs, delivering strength, durability, a lightweight structure and high performance. The Monash Motorsport team of close to 100 members is comprised of Monash University students from a range of faculties, including engineering, commerce, science, design and law. They are split into five separate departments working on different parts of the car including autonomous systems, business, dynamics, electrical systems and structures. Since 2000, Monash Motorsport has steadily improved in performance on and off the track, culminated in FSAE Au...