Gaithersburg, MD - March 1, 2024 – The NIST Office of Advanced Manufacturing , which serves as the coordinating office for Manufacturing USA , a national network created to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing , today announced that four institutes will lead a panel discussion at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference...
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Eastern Florida State College (EFSC) is newest home to an advanced composites learning center designed to educate and train composites technicians to support Florida's Space Coast manufacturing region.
Led by the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, or IACMI-The Composites Institute ® , the national workforce initiative...
Developed by Structural Composites Inc. (SCI, Melbourne, Fla., U.S.), a newly installed composite bridge in north central Tennessee is said to showcase sustainable solutions for aging infrastructure. Equipped with a fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge deck embedded with fiber-optic sensors , it has replaced a damaged, decades-old concrete...
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the Biden Administration’s American Jobs Plan and “ skinny budget ” include a heavy emphasis on federal investments in R&D. Since World War II, federal investments in research have led to life-changing inventions ranging from the recent COVID-19 vaccine to the Internet , but as a bonus, federal R&D also creates...
After a recent bicycle ride, the frame of my road bike caught my attention. It struck me that, when I first started riding seriously far more years ago than I care to admit, the carbon fiber composite that my bike is made of today simply didn’t exist. Aluminum alloy rims were a pretty new thing (and seemed to bend if you just looked at them wrong)...