Li Dongsheng, chief engineer of composites at COMAC, said that the firm’s previous models like the ARJ21 regional jet used about 2 percent composite materials, mainly in the rear and some minor parts.
GKN Aerospace has successfully concluded a composite manufacturing and assembly research programme using of out of autoclave (OOA) processes and materials and PI shaped woven preforms. These ...
The automotive industry converted accelerator pedals from metals to injection molded short-glass thermoplastics in the 1990s. However, brake pedals — being safety-critical components with challenging ...
Although the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Composites Affordability Initiative (CAI) demonstrated technologies for manufacturing large, integrated and bonded composite aerospace structures — a ...