Tokyo — Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. has long reserved costly carbon-fiber-reinforced components to such applications as the hood and roof of its low-volume, high-performance GT-R sports car. But thanks to a ...

It’s long been established that retained fiber length has a direct impact on mechanical properties of composites. Shown above, flexural modulus is plotted against notched Charpy impact strength for a ...

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Munich, Germany) is the largest applied research organization in Europe, staffed by 24,500 people, mostly scientists and engineers. More than 70% of the group’s annual budget, ...