Composites, Textiles and Reinforcements Reference Materials

Description: This high performance thermoset composite material is manufactured from a woven glass fabric and a high-temperature phenolic resin system. The resulting composite material provides excellent flame ...

Description: The term heat resistant fabric covers a wide range of materials with one common property - thermal insulation. A heat resistant fabric will provide protection against extreme temperatures and they are ...

Description: The aerospace industry requires constant innovation of materials in order for them to provide outstanding performance and reliability in extreme operating conditions. ...

Description: A fiberglass is a form of fiber-reinforced plastic where glass fiber is the reinforced plastic. This is the reason perhaps why fiberglass is also known as glass reinforced plastic or glass fiber ...

Description: Common materials for orthopedic testing and education - most often, cadaver specimens, but also animal bones and wood - while utilitarian, are far from ideal for today's researchers and students. ...

Description: Polyurethane resin is currently a minor player in the composite industry, with unsaturated polyesters and epoxies having the largest shares among thermosetting materials1 . However, the outlook for ...

Description: Defense Subcontractor slashes three-fourths of its prototyping costs & time using multi-use core form ...

Description: Guest columnist Kevin Meyer, associate scientist, Dow Polyurethanes, The Dow Chemical Co. (Midland, MI, US), asks, and suggests some answers to, the question, "Why have polyurethanes, given their ...

Description: The advent of higher-temperature resins and carbon-fiber composites such as Hexcel's HexTOOL®*, created the need for polyurethane foam that can withstand much higher process temperatures. It ...

Description: In 2011, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) began construction on its East Campus Operations Center, a net zero Platinum LEED® energy site containing a five-story office building, fuel ...

Description: Network Rail chose to improve shunter safety and cut maintenance costs by replacing concrete walkways and structures with fabricated pultruded fiberglass DURADEK® grating walkways and shunter ...

Description: Strongwell distributor and fabricator PIPEX Structural Composites Ltd. selected EXTREN® structural shapes, SAFPLATE® gritted plate and SAFPLANK® interlocking decking system for use in a ...

Description: The Berry Amendment (10 U.S.C. §2533a) prohibits the Department of Defense from the purchase of the following articles or items, unless items have been grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the ...

Description: Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS 2) - EU Directive 2011/65/EC restricts the use of certain hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of electronic and electrical equipment. ...

Description: The Air National Guard (ANG) contacted General Plastics as it explored rigid polyurethane foam solutions to munitions storage for its civil air defense facilities. In particular, it sought a ...

Description: Designing components made from glass ber reinforced thermoplastics is not trivial since the bers are inclusions in the matrix material. Fibers are specically oriented in the mold lling phase ...

Description: Flex fatigue resistance of multi-layer composites of silicone rubber and plain weave polyester fabrics is determined with a Bally-type flexometer according to ASTM D 6182. Fabric denier and the ...

Description: Harrington Industrial Plastics recently outfitted a sea lion attraction at the Aqua Theater in the Wildlife Conservation Society's Queens Zoo with EXTREN® fiberglass structural shapes and ...

Description: The Blue Harbor Resort in Sheboygan, WI was outfitted with Strongwell's pultruded fiberglass grating and stair treads. ...

Description: A composites FRP (Fiber Reinforced Polymer) pedestrian suspension bridge was recently completed to join the new state-of-the-art, five-story, 110,000 square-foot, John D. Tickle Engineering Building ...

Description: As the application of composite aero structures has increased, the effect of lightning strike damage and the structural tolerance necessary to absorb this damage has required further test ...

Description: Silicone based press pads provide uniform pressure and temperature during flex and flex-rigid printed circuit board (PCB) lamination. Customer surveys show that cost per cycle, pressure uniformity, ...

Description: Silicone based press pads provide uniform pressure during flex and flex-rigid printed circuit board (PCB) lamination at high temperature, 150ºC-250ºC. Use of Arlon UltraPad®silicone press pad has ...

Description: In the 1970's, with commercial airline objectives set at weight reduction, increased safety factors, lower manufacturing costs and reduced maintenance schedules, Aerospace Engineers looked to ...

Description: A novel preform is made with carbon/PPS unidirectional tape, which is slit and converted into a braid. This preform is being used in production for aircraft interior applications where flame smoke and ...

Description: The global requirement for reduced CO2 emissions and increased vehicle fuel economy is an important aspect of technology development in the transportation Industry. Dow Automotive and Magna Exteriors ...

Description: Cabin air quality is a growing concern raised by various automakers throughout the world. Specifications are becoming more and more stringent and the leading specifications are being adopted by more ...

Description: Polyurethane spray foams have found widespread use in the construction industry as insulation, moisture and air barriers. Due to the in-field application of Spray-Applied Polyurethane Foam (SPF), the ...

Description: The global requirement for reduced CO2 emissions and increased vehicle fuel economy is an important aspect of technology development in the transportation Industry. Dow Automotive and Magna Exteriors ...

Description: As emission standards for both off-highway and stationary diesel engines become increasingly stringent, emission control technologies are becoming increasingly sophisticated. New engines being ...

Description: New technologies to bond materials that could not previously be joined together, to increase the strength of composite bonds and to develop nanocomposites are ushering in a new era of composite ...