This article describes the cost and weight evaluation of fully tested Dornier 728 nose landing gear doors reengineered using ROHACELL ® HERO polymethacrylimide (PMI) closed cell rigid structural foam ...

Consultant Andre Cocquyt estimates that, in the past year, about 700 U.S. composites manufacturers initiated a changeover to some form of resin infusion. Yet the results, he says, are often ...

The use of core material in composite applications is nothing new. Foam, balsa and honeycomb core have been mainstays of sandwich construction in boat hulls and decks for more than three decades, and ...