BMW learned an important lesson during the development of its new all-electric i8, says BMW’s Head of R&D Dr. Klaus Draeger in a recent interview. That lesson, simply that regular cars can’t merely be transformed into electric cars. The entire car needs to be rebuilt.
The New Mexico Activities Association, a governing body of New Mexico high school sports, has outlawed the use of aluminum bats in local baseball leagues. Aluminum bats are hollow and lighter than traditional wooden bats, so the baseball travels at much higher speeds than the wooden bats. According to data from Popular Mechanics, aluminum...
Kevin Spoo began with a simple premise: Many fabricators and end users assume all glass has the same basic quality level and corrosive resistance, but various glass compositions perform differently. As a research assistant for Owens Corning and a resin chemist by trade, Spoo knew that some corrosive agents “tear a composite apart even...
In late 2008, Structural Composites based in Melbourne, Fla. submitted a proposal to the Navy Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to solve project number N091-049, Advanced Combatant Craft for Increased Affordability and Mission Performance. The purpose of the project was to reduce the lifecycle cost and improve shock mitigation protection on small combatant crafts...
NASCAR legend and ESPN commentator Rusty Wallace will be a keynote speaker at the COMPOSITES 2012 Show in Las Vegas. Composites have been implementing into NASCAR designs since the late 1980s and continue to be a crucial part of new designs.
The demand for eco-friendly materials is rising throughout the composites industry. Until now, many industry firms that offer biobased products made from biological or renewable agricultural materials have relied on company marketing strategies to promote green initiatives. This is no longer the case. At COMPOSITES 2012, Ron Buckhalt, manager of the BioPreferred Program at...
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