Industry Digest

Cyclists competing in the Tour de France can achieve speeds upwards of 60 mph. Skids and crashes at these speeds can cause severe abrasions to cyclists, even preventing them from completing the race. DSM...

With funding from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation funded by a grant from the UK government, a team of researchers from AIM Altitude, Composites Evolution Limited, and Sheffield Hallam...

Strong, light, and able to enhance the safety of drivers, carbon fiber has been a game-changer in Formula One racing. As companies focus more on the environment, designers are searching for new alternative...

BMW Motorrad is a leader in the use of carbon fiber in vehicles. The high-end HP race bike, designed for track use, features a carbon fiber chassis with a frame that weighs only 7.8 kgs. It now appears that...

The Mars Perseverance Rover is carrying the heaviest payload yet in its latest mission to seek signs of past life on Mars and to gather rocks and soil to be analyzed upon its return. The landing parachute of...

The core of Donkervoort Automobielen’s JD70 is a hybrid chassis built of a tubular steel ladder frame reinforced with carbon fiber for added strength and reduced weight. That’s just the beginning of the...