Composite Materials Department

One measure of civilizations progress is the materials that identify successive epochs: Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. Some material scientists argue that the current age is the age of composites. A working definition of composite material, which takes into account both the structural form and composition of the material constituents, is a material system that composed of a mixture or combination of two or more macroconstituents differing in form and/or composition and they are essentially insoluble in each other. Mainstream composites are actively changing the world, but from a manufacturing viewpoint, composites are in a tough competitive battle. Not only are materials costs substantially higher, but new and more efficient production methods have to be invented.
Today, the use of composite materials in structures of all kinds is accelerating rapidly, with the major impact already being felt in the aerospace industry, where the use of composites has directly enhanced the capability of fuel-efficient aircraft in the commercial arena and new-generation aircraft in the military sphere. The increasing age of these materials is spreading worldwide, capitalizing on developments that were the direct result of a large investment in the technology over the last two or more decades
The future is open to composites to be the "materials-by-design" and that they still promise to be.