Over the past three decades, the manufacture of bicycle frames has advanced rapidly from an industry traditionally centered on steel to the use of extremely lightweight materials, including steel and ...

Vehicle lightweighting isn’t an ideal, it’s an imperative. Alongside ever-improving safety equipment, the batteries and complex powertrains that push cars more miles per gallon are making cars heavier ...

Dragonplate's telescoping tube clamp system provides a strong, yet easy to use method for creating extendable carbon fiber tube assemblies. These telescoping tube clamps feature an adjustable screw to ...

Joining carbon fiber composites and aluminum for lightweight cars and other multi-material high-end products could become less expensive because of a new method that harnesses a laser's power and ...

A research team from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a laser process that could make joining carbon fiber composites and aluminum less expensive with more robust joints as a ...

The linking parts of a car’s or truck’s steering and suspension system directly impact the vehicle’s ride, durability and steerability. Thus, part performance here is directly related to how the ...

Carbon fiber reinforced aluminum matrix composites represent a class of advanced materials that integrate the exceptional strength and stiffness of carbon fibres with the lightweight nature and ...

Adhesives such as Araldite 2015 from Vantico A&T U.S. Inc., Los Angeles (www.vantico.com), bond to a variety of substrates with dissimilar coefficients of thermal expansion including aluminum, ...

In September this year, Rock West Composites (RWC) announced a significant expansion of its in-stock, carbon fiber tubing for high-performance carbon bicycle frame applications. Carbon composite ...