Composite Materials and Advanced Materials
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What improvement in processing and manufacturing technique can lower the cost of composites?
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How can composites be uniquely incorporated into aerospace platforms of the future?
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How can composites be improved upon to reduce weight or the number of parts in aerospace platforms?
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Can platforms such as UAVs be made of eco-friendly or using bio-degradable materials?
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How can repairing of composite airframes or UAV’s be made less difficult and costly?
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While composites make aircraft invisible to radar, what if regulatory agencies for example want to track aircraft such as UAV’s, how could this be accomplished?
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Can composites and other advanced materials be manufactured in environments that do not require controlled temperatures (eg hot or cold curing processes)
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Can materials be coated or processed in such a way as to improve their properties (eg aluminum-like properties from coatings to reduce cost of using aluminum)
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Are their better ways to test the integrity and endurance of composite structures (eg non-invasive, less-labor intensive/automated tests, etc.)
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Can composite materials be made to withstand high temperatures (eg aircraft flying over forest fires or the Antartic)