Composite materials are essential in the aerospace industry. To shape them, autoclaves, high-pressure and high-temperature chambers are traditionally used. But to optimise energy consumption and ...

Back in 1989, Radius Engineering published: “a versatile Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM) process for producing high quality aerospace composite laminates has been demonstrated. Low-void-content ...

Alenia Composite is acquiring a second autoclave to mitigate the risk of disruption to its one-piece fuselage barrel production for the Boeing 787 programme. The manufacturer's Grottaglie facility ...

The polymer additive manufacturing research team at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Oak Ridge, TN, US) reports that it has ...