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Podcast Ep. #41 – Alpine Advanced Materials and the Ultralight Nanocomposite Material HX5™

On September 25, 2020 · In Composite Materials, Nanomaterials, Novel Materials/Tailored Structures, Podcast, Structural Efficiency

In this episode I am speaking to Aaron Daniel and Peter Shpik of Alpine Advanced Materials. Alpine Advanced Materials specialises in the design and manufacture of custom-engineered parts and products for demanding aerospace and energy applications. The company is currently commercialising a high-performance material known as HX5™, which is a thermoplastic nanocomposite originally developed by Lockheed […]

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Composite Manufacturing – Autoclave Variability

On July 21, 2012 · In Composite Materials, Manufacturing

Throughout the last four decades the exploitation of fibre-reinforced plastics (FRP) in engineering structures has been steadily diversifying from sports equipment and high performance racing cars, to helicopters and most recently commercial aeroplanes. Composite materials are essentially a combination of two or more dissimilar materials that are used together in order to combine best properties, […]

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Carbon Nanotube Hierarchical Composites for Interlaminar Strengthening

On May 11, 2012 · In Composite Materials, Novel Materials/Tailored Structures

The exploitation of conventional, continuous fibre-reinforced plastics in engineering structures has been steadily diversifying from sports equipment and high performance racing cars, to helicopters and most recently commercial aeroplanes. The main benefits of composite materials, such as their excellent specific strength and stiffness properties, must be viewed with respect to in-plane fibre-direction applications. However, if […]

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