Researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and flexibility. These ...

In this interview, AZoM talks to Lyndon Newman, Lead Engineer for Rail at TRB Lightweight Structures, about the use of TRB's composites in the Rail industry. Could you give us an overview of TRB ...

With a solid reputation built on more than sixty years of service to rail, air, defense and other industries, the company is now expanding and benefitting from a program of investment and capital ...

Currently our department does not have any formal operating guidelines for fires involving lightweight wood-frame mixed occupancies either completed or under construction. We have been fortunate not ...

TRB LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES, UK has developed solution for high-volume manufacture of composite components by combining proprietary snap-cure resins and in-house produced prepreg materials with ...

The potential dangers of lightweight construction and its inherent deficiencies must be understood by every firefighter and fire officer. From a strategic and tactical standpoint, lightweight ...

TRB Lightweight Structures and Toyota Tsusho America have announced a joint venture to produce high-volume composite parts for the automotive industry in North America. The new venture has opened a ...

Light-weight structures are fully computationally designed and robotically fabricated. The two pavilions embody and express the strength of innovation typical for the State of Baden-Württemberg, which ...

image: MIT researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and ...