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» DEPARTMENTS 16 CW Trends 51 CW Calendar 52 CW Applications 54 CW New Products 60 CW Marketplace 60 CW Ad Index 61 CW Showcase » ON THE COVER The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art expansion's exterior is the largest use of fber-reinforced plastic in a US architectur- al building project to date. More than 700 contoured panels were molded to face the 7804m 2 addition's 10-story structure. Ar- chitectural composites specialist Kreysler and Associates (American Canyon, CA, US) reveals how it was done on p. 44. Source / Kreysler and Associates FOCUS ON DESIGN 62 Prepreg Compression Molding Makes Its Commercial Debut Ultra-thin, preformed laminate designs enable CFRP decklid manufacture at lower-than-expected mass and at cycle times approaching mass-production speed. By Peggy Malnati CompositesWorld (ISSN 2376-5232) is published monthly (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and December) and copyright © 2015 by Gardner Business Media Inc. 6915 Valley Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45244-3029. Telephone: (513) 527-8800. Printed in U.S.A. Periodicals postage paid at Cincinnati, OH and additional mailing offices. All rights reserved. MEMBERSHIPS: POSTMASTER: Send address changes to CompositesWorld Magazine, 6915 Valley Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45244-3029. If undeliverable, send Form 3579. CANADA POST: Canada Returns to be sent to IMEX Global Solutions, PO Box 25542, London, ON N6C 6B2 Canada. Publications Mail Agreement #40612608. The information presented in this edition of CompositesWorld is believed to be accurate. In applying recommendations, however, you should exercise care and normal precautions to prevent personal injury and damage to facilities or products. In no case can the authors or the publisher accept responsibility for personal injury or damages which may occur in working with methods and/or materials presented herein, nor can the publisher assume responsibility for the validity of claims or performance of items appearing in editorial presentations or advertisements in this publication. Contact information is provided to enable interested parties to conduct further inquiry into specific products or services. FE ATURES 34 Thermoplastic Composites Technology: A View from Europe For The Thermoplastic Composites Research Center (TPRC), a consortium based in Enschede, The Netherlands, bringing the manufacturability of thermoplastic materials to maturity is the goal, working in concert with its members, which include OEMs and materials and equipment suppliers. By Sara Black 44 Inside Manufacturing SFMOMA Façade: Advancing the Art of High-Rise FRP The fabrication and installation of more than 700 unique molded composite panels that defne the exterior aesthetic of the ongoing 10-story expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a backstory of detailed design and careful quality assurance and involves a "frst" in the US architectural world. By Ginger Gardiner 44 34 26 52 COLUMNS 4 CW From the Editor 6 CW Past, Present and Future 8 CW Perspectives & Provocations 10 CW Design & Testing 14 CW Business Index 26 Work In Progress CW's senior writer emeritus Donna Dawson looks into ongoing research aimed at attainment of 80-90% of the tensile modulus of continuous carbon fber-rein- forcement by using long chopped fber in D-LFT processes. 30 Work In Progress CW editor-in-chief Jef Sloan calls attention to experimental work at the University of Delaware on how air, resin and fbers interact during vacuum-based composites manufacturing to help out-of-autoclave processors more easily achieve <1% void content. CompositesWorld.com 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS JUNE 2015 / Vol: 1 N o – : 6