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The Hindu Apr 07 12:40 pm 

IIW President R. Srinivasan said the quest for newer lighter material was never-ending. The IIW was working in collaboration with the defence forces.

GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance India Apr 07 01:15 pm 

SIOUX FALLS S.D. April 07 2016-- Raven Industriestrade Engineered Films Division an innovative manufacturer of polymer film and sheeting announced the installation of a technologically advanced 7- layer ...

International Business Times UK Apr 07 11:24 am 

Behrokh Khoshnevis invents novel 3D printing process that uses powder at high temperatures to create objects.

Newswise Apr 07 11:43 am 

The world has more carbon dioxide than it needs and a team of Brown University chemists has come up with a potential way to put some of it to good use.

Air Transport World Apr 07 07:27 am 

Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia has signed a multi-million dollar deal with UK-based Mirus Aircraft Seating to retrofit its entire Airbus A320 fleet with lightweight composite-based seats. read more

nanotechweb.org Apr 07 07:28 am 

Metal inverse materials could be used to cool down electronics devices and in a host of other thermal management applications.

EurekAlert! Apr 07 08:49 am 

Louisiana Tech University Renata Minullina and Abhishek Panchal biomedical engineering graduate students from Louisiana Tech University and the Institute for Micromanufacturing IfM have won the prestigious Poster Presentation Award at the Polymer Materials Science and Engineering Division of the 251st National American Chemical Society ACS Meeting held recently in San Diego California.

Aircraft Maintenance Technology Apr 07 05:26 am 

Once again demonstrating its industrytrades leadership and innovation Aircraft Propeller Service LLC APS www.aircraftpropeller.com Lake Zurich ILone of the leading commercial propeller Maintenance Repair Organizations MROs in the world has established a state of the art component MRO training and knowledge resource Prop U. According to APS Vice President of Sales and Marketing Dennis ...

Malaysian Digest Apr 06 10:39 pm 

AirAsia has signed an agreement with Mirus Aircraft Seating Ltd to be the launch customer for the aircraft seating manufacturertrades new Hawk slimline economy seat. The deal will see AirAsia retrofit all existing and new Airbus A320 aircraft with the lightweight seats.

Newswise Apr 06 12:58 pm 

Engineers have created a new material with an unusual chemical structure that makes it incredibly hard and yet elastic.

Business Wire Apr 06 01:13 pm 

LONDON--BUSINESS WIRE-- AIRG Chemicals --Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global tooling composite market 2016-2020 report.

Discover Apr 06 03:00 pm 

The word foam doesn39t necessarily convey strength but seeing a bullet explode upon impact with composite metal foam certainly does. Researchers at North Carolina State University created a bubble-filled metal composite that combines the strength of steel with the airiness and heat-resistant properties of foam. In tests with armor-piercing bullets a one-inch layer of the material stopped the ...

Bennington Banner Apr 06 03:42 pm 

BENNINGTON gtgt Since ancient times humans have sought to apply an aesthetic to the practical. The artist39s eye often contributed to everything from architecture to simple household implements. To design such items and then produce them was often laborious. Enter the Digital Age. With the ever increasing power and abilities of information technology designing has entered a new realm one

Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance India Apr 06 11:40 am 

According to their latest report Technavio analysts expect the global piezoelectric smart materials market for 2016-2020 to exceed USD 42 billion by 2020 growing at a CAGR of almost 13.

UPI Apr 06 08:49 am 

Brooks Hays RALEIGH N.C. April 6 UPI -- New test results suggest metal foam has tremendous bullet-stopping potential.

Marketwired via Yahoo UK & Ireland Finance Apr 06 05:28 am 

Anomet Products custom manufactures composite clad metal wire that provides a wide range of options for design engineers with respect to material selection cladding thickness and diameter.

gizmag Apr 06 12:47 am 

Not content with rescuing kayakers39 tired arms with its highly efficient pedal-propulsion system water sports specialist Hobie is now setting its sights on those who like to take to the water upright. The company39s Mirage Eclipse stand-up Pedal boards make for new kinds of aquatic adventure by allowing standing users to glide across the water simply by moving their legs up and down. .. Continue...

gizmag Apr 05 08:55 am 

The latest enterprise-grade 3D printer from Stratasys the J750 model is reportedly the first that can print objects with photorealistic color accuracy. In addition like other premium printers from the same company it can also print in multiple materials to produce parts that are hard or soft opaque or transparent for some rather impressive results. .. Continue Reading 3D printer creates ...

The Aero-News Network Apr 05 02:15 am

Sport Aviation39s STOL Champion CubCrafters Helps ANN Bring You Sun 39n Fun The Carbon Cub SS is a thoroughly modern high performance airplane that has taken the fundamentally superior design of the Piper Super Cub and reinvented it using 21st Century materials such as carbon fiber and computer-aided design technology. Superior engineering results in the Carbon Cub SS having 50 percent ...

materialstoday Apr 05 04:00 am 

Web Industries Inc a provider of prepreg composite formatting technologies and services has joined the ThermoPlastic Composites Research Center TPRC based in Enschede The Netherlands.

Daily Mail Apr 05 04:16 am 

Engineers at the University of South California and UC San Diego have created a new type of metallic glass that is 588 times more resistant to damage than stainless steel and can bounce when dropped.