Until now structural parts for jets like the 787 have been made of a type of composite known as thermoset, which maintains its shape and toughness once cured in autoclaves.

Ica Manas-Zloczower is the Thomas W. and Nancy P. Seitz Professor of Advanced Materials and Energy in the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering and the Distinguished University ...

Bakelite is a thermoset plastic made from phenol and formaldehyde with a catalyst of some sort. This mixture is then placed in an environment of heat and pressure to set it. This relative ease of ...

1- PROF. DR.-ING. CHRISTIAN BRECHER,2- DIPL.-ING. ALEXANDER KERMER-MEYER,3- DIPL.-ING. MARTIN STEYER,4- DIPL.-ING. MARKUS DUBRATZ,5- DIPL.-ING. MICHAEL EMONTS, FRAUNHOFER IPT AACHEN (published on ...

"Recycling used products instead of discarding them, as it happens today with thermoset polymer-based composites, would be the next step." More information: Valentina Kravtsova et al, Recyclability of ...

A tool mounted on a press is then used to form a head on each post, trapping the top part securely against the base part. The base part must be made of a formable thermoplastic, but the entrapped part ...

This plastic 3D printing process uses a thermoset liquid, not a thermoplastic, which is UV-cured in layers to form final parts with high precision and detail. There are so many reasons to love ...

Toho Tenax, the core company of the Teijin Group’s carbon fibres and composites business, has developed a flame-retardant, high-modulus thermoplastic textile prepreg. A prepreg is a carbon fibre sheet ...