End-of-life aircraft recycling program is for thermoplastic composites.

Airbus and Boeing are preparing the aerospace industry for sharp increases in output of the next generation of workhorse jets to some 100 a month each, as they explore lighter plastic materials ...

V. Solouki Bonab, I. Manas-Zloczower, 2016, “Chemorheology of Thermoplastic Polyurethane and Thermoplastic Polyurethane/Carbon Nanotube Composite Systems”, Polymer, 99, 513-520. Maiorana, L. Yue, I.

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 April ...

The implications of the team's findings are that with proper incentives, fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite materials could replace their poorly recyclable thermoset counterparts. Depending on ...

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 ...