Archive for June, 2008
New developments in the continuous monitoring of composite sandwich structure health and environment through the embedding of connected fiber optic sensors.
Read the Article at SPIE
Rautaruukki Corporation, an Eastern European manufacturer and installer of sandwich panel structures has a current job opening for a manager of sandwich panel research and development.
More info: Uratie.fi
Partly due to recent fires of insulated buildings in the UK, structures constructed with insulated sandwich panels could be in need of an inspection, and if the panels are deemed unsafe, they will need to be retrofitted. Authorities estimate that over 10,000 public buildings, schools, and hospitals could be in need of an inspection. Current building codes allow for potentially combustible core materials to be used.
This could possibly become the largest building safety inspection in the UK since asbestos checks in the ’80s.
DRS Technologies has been awarded a $16.2 million dollar contract to supply Multi-Temperature Refrigeration Container System (MTRCS) units to the U.S. Army’s Natick Soldier Systems Center at Natick, Massachusetts.
It is a pretty good guess that these containers, which carry medical supplies and blood, will be built with composite sandwich panels.