Mitsubishi Plastics Inc. has developed pitch-based carbon fiber reinforcement that costs almost half as much as conventionally made pitch-based carbon fiber. Dialead K13C6U is an ultra-high modulus ...
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When the new Wanda Vista Towers building is completed in Chicago it will be 1,140 feet tall with 95 floors. The footprint of the building will be approximately 350 by 150 feet and will feature a hotel ...
Off-highway vehicles operate in conditions that challenge hard-working components and the materials they are made of. Those vehicles and ancillary equipment must withstand summers in the Australian ...
With more and more demanding requirement of customers on the mechanical performance of products, and as the price is very high for carbon fiber, aramid fiber, S2 and other high performance fiber; ...
Hexcel will showcase innovative advanced lightweight material technologies at METSTRADE including new intermediate and high modulus fibre HexPly® M79 prepregs and present example high-performance ...
A recent article in Communications Materials proposed a novel approach to enhance the elastic modulus of a cast aluminum alloy by incorporating isostructural Laves phases to form a multi-component, ...
Since Roger Bacon discovered “graphite whiskers” in 1958 at Union Carbide’s Parma Technical Center (now GrafTech International), carbon fibers have been used in high performance applications from ...