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.

Simulated Earthquake Shows Composite Building Technology can save Lives

A team of structural experts from the composites industry and universities in Turkey has demonstrated how a building retrofitted with carbon fiber composites can successfully survive a simulated...

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Colorado State University Engineers Repair Steel Structures with Composites

Hussam Mahmoud, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University (CSU), is leading a team that’s devising innovative repairs for steel structures in canals and...

World’s First Biocomposite Footbridge Installed in The Netherlands

The world’s first fully biocomposite footbridge has been installed at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands. An existing bridge has been moved to make space for the “biobridge”...

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Five Big Opportunities for Pipe and Tank Fabricators

Creative suppliers can turn marketplace challenges into business opportunities. Suppliers of FRP pipes and tanks agree that the past year has been comparatively slow when it comes to new projects. Few of the...

Malaysian Company Builds First Carbon Fiber Tower in Asia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-based company edotco Group has successfully installed a ground-based carbon fiber tower Taman Tasik Prima, Malaysia. This marks the first carbon fiber-based tower built in...

Michigan DOT Planning its First Bridge with Carbon Fiber Strand Reinforcement

On July 18, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) began removing the M-86 bridge over the Prairie River near Centreville, Mich. In its place will be the first MDOT bridge to use carbon fiber...