Jim Jendusa, the founder of Hartland-based Lightweight Structures LLC, developed a lightweight composite material called FORTECO to replace the industry standards for framing floors and walls. FORTECO ...

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 ...

Andrew Dugmore, President of TRB Lightweight Structures, talks to AZoM about the process and application of lightweight structures. Can you provide me with a brief overview of TRB Lightweight ...

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 ...

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 ...

A carbon-fiber skeleton of Tinkertoy-like building blocks is 10 times as stiff as structures of similar densities. And because the framework is made of mostly identical pieces, broken parts can be ...

Materials scientists lead a project to turn strong, light and compressible schwarzites from theory to reality with three-dimensional printers. The resulting materials share their properties from the ...