Roth Composite Machinery (Steffenberg, Germany) announced June 26 a filament winding plant developed in close cooperation with space propulsion system manufacturer Avio (Colleferro, Italy), who is ...

CompoTech AFL pitch fiber placement process. The automated machine is able to cost-effectively make a unidirectional flat pitch fiber preform on a PAN fiber fabric backing, as well as the finished ...

Farmers used to extract fibers through hand scraping or with the use of a manual spindle-stripping machine introduced by the Japanese. This device is stationary and poses hazards to its operators ...

Managing growth in a shifting landscape requires the ability to look ahead while simultaneously referring to historically proven expertise. It is precisely that blend of viewpoints that for 50 years ...

Components made of glass- and carbon- fiber reinforced composites, soaring in high-performance applications, can be 3D printed. A team of researchers has found that the printer head toolpaths are easy ...

Through innovative use of a neural network that mimics image processing by the human brain, a research team reports accurate reconstruction of images transmitted over optical fibers for distances of ...

The inner circle classifies fiber sensors into ‘Macroscopical’ and ‘Microscopical’ according to the fiber dimension. The outer pie chart shows the classification according to the working principles.