N°76 - october 2012 - JEC Composites Magazine - JEC Composites Magazine Digital Edition

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JEC Composites Magazine is the point of contact of the international Composites Community, 6 times a year, with topics covering scientific information, business, technology, manufacturing, and application sectors trends.

In each and every issue, readers will learn about the entire composites industry value chain (from raw materials to application markets), and be inspired with current and future innovations.

The six sections of the magazine consist in:

NEWS: with interviews, articles about business development (M&As, appointments, partnerships and collaborations, awards etc.).
BUSINESS: with articles covering trends and markets, focusing on a specific country or region, with the composites market, or the application markets, or the companies strategies etc. in that country or region, and a startup focus.
MANUFACTURING: with articles about production processes and processing equipment.
FEATURE: an in-depth overview of a specific topic (typically an application sector), plus a JEC World Preview in April/May and Review in June/July.
SOLUTIONS: composites around us, with articles showing how composite materials are being used in applications which impact our everyday lives.
TECHNOLOGY: with articles about developments in materials, testing and control, repair, joining, design and simulation, recycling and reuse, R&D.

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Munich Composites GmbH, Technische Universität München, the Institute for Carbon Composites and designer Benjamin Hansbauer have developed the BRAID bicycle frame, a new kind of frame entirely made of...

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AIRPod is the culmination of Motor Development International (MDI) studies on pollution and urban mobility. This concept will be the first one to leave the production line. Composites are an integral...

Running a laboratory is a demanding job, especially in the composite industry, where there is a wide range of applications and certifications in each market sector. Let’s take a look at the day-to-day...

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The complexity of engineering systems at the microlevel greatly complicates the analysis of macroscopic behaviour. Direct analysis is computationally intensive and unrealis-tic. SwiftComp...

JEC Composites Magazine

N°76 - october 2012

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A vibrant North American composites industry