New players proliferate, increasing CMC materials and manufacturing capacity, novel processes and automation to meet demand for higher part volumes and performance. As the composite industry shifts ...

Dale Brosius , Contributing Writer, Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) Driven by increasing environmental awareness, automakers in the 1990s made significant ...

Recombinant spider silk produced by living organisms, ultra-light carbon fiber composites, and next-generation aerogels are no longer lab curiosities, they are already in hospitals, on battlefields, ...

While bio-based polylactic acid (PLA) thermoplastic is relatively eco-friendly and easily recyclable, composites such as carbon fiber are much stronger. German scientists are now claiming to have ...

BMW is readying flax-based composites for series production cars. The German automaker is working with clean-tech company Bcomp for the natural composites found in the BMW Formula E car, the M4 DTM, ...

Carbon-fiber frames advance cycling innovation with lightweight, durable designs and state-of-the-art manufacturing ...

Strong and light carbon-fiber composites can be easily and cost-effectively recycled into new material just as strong as the originals, a team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder ...

A hairline crack in a composite wing panel or a bridge girder can propagate for months before anyone notices. By the time a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The fuselage of the jetliner involved in a ...