Filament winding is a common and enabling manufacturing process for producing composite items such as pressure vessels, driveshafts, electrical fuses and numerous other bodies of revolution. Fiber ...
It took the IVW several years to develop and build the prototype for a winding system equipped with eight feed eyes (Fig. 1) distributed around the perimeter of a ring (Fig. 2). Each arm can ...
Hexcel will showcase its latest lightweight composite solutions at JEC World 2026 in Paris Nord Villepinte. The Hexcel booth ...
Automotive liftgates, or rear-hatch doors, have slowly been transitioning from metals to composites for decades. While it wasn’t until 2013 that the first all-plastic/composite liftgate, minus metal ...