Infrastructure

Composites are used all over the world to help construct and repair a wide variety of infrastructure applications, from buildings and bridges to roads to and railways.

Composite FRP Being Used to Strengthen Existing Bridges

FiberCore Europe developed SUREbridge, a circular solution in which a composite fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) deck is placed on an existing concrete bridge. Crumbling, unsafe concrete bridges and viaducts...

Utilities Ready to Invest in FRP Solutions

Grid hardening drives massive surge in FRP pole demand. Less than a decade ago, FRP composite utility pole manufacturers were going to utility companies to make the value case for installing their more...

The Toughness of Tanks

Driven by customer demands and government regulations, storage tanks are becoming increasingly durable. Geoff Clarkson, P.Eng., doesn’t fabricate composite storage tanks, but he knows a lot about what...

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...

RS Composite Utility Pole Survives Forest Fire

RS Technologies’ RS composite utility pole, protected with an RS Fire Shield™ made from fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP), survived forest fire conditions in Canada’s Northwest Territories with no damage to...

BUGA Fiber Pavilion–A New Composite Building System Inspired by Nature

The University of Stuttgart’s Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) worked together to design and fabricate a park...