CompositesWorld
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COLUMNS 4 From the Editor 6 Past, Present and Future 8 Perspectives & Provocations 10 Design & Testing 14 Gardner Business Index - Composites 30 Work In Progress CW technical editor Sara Black updates current research into alternatives to PAN precursor for carbon fber, and sheds light on promising advances in the development of commercial-grade fber from lignin precursor. 36 Work In Progress CW senior editor Ginger Gardiner follows up on a previous report about an Airbus Composite Technology Center project designed to demonstrate the use of recycled carbon fber materials in a full-scale aircraft interior sidewall panel. » DEPARTMENTS 16 Trends 53 Calendar 54 Applications 56 New Products 58 Marketplace 59 Ad Index 59 Showcase » ON THE COVER Cevotec's (Garching, Germany) automated Fiber Patch Placement line's 4-axis kine- matic robot armature locates a carbon fber patch precisely on a glass fber scrim in accord with software-based programming, providing the means for designers at North Kiteboarding (Oberhaching, Germany) to fne-tune the response of its boards' fex- ibility and torsional stifness to rider styles. Read more about it on p. 38. Source | Cevotec FOCUS ON DESIGN 60 NASA/Boeing Composite Launch Vehicle Tank Scores Firsts Subscale 5.5m-diameter cryogenic tank demonstrator with innovative futed-core skirt is formed via robotic AFP and cured out of the autoclave. By Johanna Knapschaefer CompositesWorld (ISSN 2376-5232) is published monthly and copyright © 2016 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. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to CompositesWorld Magazine, 6915 Valley Ave., MEMBERSHIPS: 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 38 Inside Manufacturing: Fiber Patch Preforms Help Tailor Kiteboard Performance Kiteboarders are as notoriously particular about the performance of their boards as golfers are about their clubs. Now, an innovative, automated means for laying carbon fber reinforcements only where needed ofers this kiteboard manufacturer new potential to fne-tune a kiteboard's torsional stifness and fexibility to ft board and rider styles. By Ginger Gardiner 46 Plant Tour: Spirit AeroSystems, Prestwick, Scotland, UK Global aerostructures giant Spirit AeroSystems' UK-based Advanced Technology Center has ventured into out-of-autoclave (OOA) composites manufacturing via vacuum infusion, taking advantage of composites research sponsored by the UK government and nearby universities and technology centers, and is now the focal point for this aerospace manufacturer's promising explorations of OOA technologies. By David Inston 38 36 30 46 CompositesWorld.com 1 FEBRUARY 2016 / Vol: 2 N o – : 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS