Griffith University Racing Team Succeeds with Composites
The Griffith University Racing Team car, known as GRT19 Bronte, was designed and engineered by students at Griffith with the help of the ATL Composites team to compete in the Formula SAE...
Apollo IE Hyper-Car Uses Carbon Fiber for Strength and Aerodynamics
The IE in Apollo IE stands for Intensa Emozione, meaning intense emotion, and the hyper-car was designed with high-functionality and radical style in mind. Apollo IE was developed in partnership with HWA AG,...
Composite Aeroshell Will Protect NASA’s 2020 Rover Throughout Journey to Mars
Lockheed Martin developed a heat shield using a tiled Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator (PICA) thermal protection system to protect the Mars 2020 rover from the intense heat during entry, descent, and...
Recycled Carbon Fiber Repurposed into World’s First Carbon Fiber Rail Bogie
The world’s first carbon fiber rail bogie (CAFIBO) is being developed by a consortium of companies including ELG Carbon Fibre, Magma Structures, the University of Birmingham, the University of Huddersfield...
Ford and McDonald’s Are Caffeinating Automotive Component Sustainability
Ford Motor Company will soon be using a composite material made of coffee chaff – the dried skin of the bean which comes off during roasting – from McDonald’s coffee in vehicle parts such as headlamp...
FSU Team Develops Carbon Nanotube Heat Shield for Superfast Aircraft
A team of Florida A&M University - Florida State University (FSU) College of Engineering researchers from FSU’s High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) is developing a design for a heat shield made...
