Airbus and Boeing are revolutionizing aircraft manufacturing by replacing aluminum with thermoplastics to create ...

Boeing and its European rival Airbus are now looking to use thermoplastics to ramp up assembly times drastically for their ...

This achievement is not only a major technological breakthrough in the field of aviation cold chain equipment in China, but ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a method that demonstrates how fiber-reinforced polymer composite ... fibers and a soft matrix, or a binder ...

Companion technologies include development of additively manufactured thermoplastic composite tooling and rapid ... fiber-reinforced polymer matrix composites, nanocomposites, and plastic materials ...

The most common fibers are carbon or glass, embedded in a thermosetting or thermoplastic polymer matrix. One of the most notable attributes of composite materials is their exceptional stiffness ...

The key to that is composite construction, particularly thermoplastics. While composites are used in current planes like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350, they’re time-consuming to ...

Examples include polymer, ceramic, and metal matrix composites ... of industries where high-strength structures are required. FRPs are composite materials made from a thermoset or thermoplastic ...

This promoted matrix shear ... mechanism of PP composites but also provides a practical low-temperature toughening strategy that may be applicable to other thermoplastic polymers.

The welding system at our institute has been developed for joining fibre-reinforced high-performance thermoplastics ... materials such as fibre-reinforced PEEK, LMPAEK and PPS matrix systems, the ...