• Composite construction is a generic term to describe any building construction involving multiple dissimilar materials. Composite construction is often...
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    much shorter bow. However, making a composite bow requires more varieties of material than a self bow, its construction takes much more time, and the finished...
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    to get a visualization of ancient mummies or human remains. Construction of the composite was originally only performed by a trained artist, through drawing...
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    reduces the weight. Sandwich panels are an example of a sandwich-structured composite: the strength and lightness of this technology makes it popular and widespread...
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    designs and construction techniques. Burt Rutan introduced the canard design to the homebuilding world and pioneered the use of composite construction. Metal...
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    N52 was the first water-cooled engine to use magnesium/aluminium composite construction in the engine block. It was also listed as one of Ward's 10 Best...
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    in their construction, ranging in size from large airliners to small homebuilt aircraft. Of note are the developments made by Scaled Composites and the...
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  • reputation as a highly reliable and flexible system for feature-based composite construction.[citation needed] Customers for this system exist in over 30 countries...
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  • a wood-plastic composite. Until the 1990s, wood was the material of choice for deck construction. However, new products, composites, began to emerge...
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    seat layout with dual controls, a retractable landing gear, and a composite construction. The Dreamer aircraft uses a special type of propulsion system called...
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    side and end pressure construction. However, with the increase in popularity of concrete construction, composite construction began to use both methods...
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    popularizing the canard configuration and moldless glass cloth composite construction for homebuilt aircraft. Work on the VariEze design, which grew out...
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  • The Journal of Composites for Construction is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers and publishes original...
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    A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two...
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    strength of composite materials. For example, the particles of stone used to make concrete typically include both sand and gravel. Many construction cement...
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    series was also the first mass-manufactured light aircraft with all-composite construction and flat-panel avionics. The SR20 was developed into the Cirrus...
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    polymer composites, which are used for factory-applied protective coating or component manufacture, and for site-applied and cured construction, or maintenance...
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    finished in 1966. The system can be built using steel, concrete, or composite construction (the discrete use of both steel and concrete). It can be used for...
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    Mississippi State University, to research engine placement and composite construction. The prototype was completed in 1992, making its first flight on...
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  • warfare Berkut 360, a US home-built delta wing canard aircraft of composite construction Berkut Air, an airline based in Almaty, Kazakhstan Berkut rifle...
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    The Cessna 350 Corvalis is a composite construction, single-engine, normally aspirated, fixed-gear, low-wing general aviation aircraft that was built by...
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    Binladin Group, Saudi Arabia's largest construction company. The façade was constructed by Premiere Composite Technologies, and the clock by German tower...
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    Tensioned stone is a high-performance composite construction material: stone held in compression with tension elements. The tension elements can be connected...
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    Duramold is a composite material process developed by Virginius E. Clark. Birch or poplar plies are impregnated with phenolic resin and laminated together...
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    1863, the first tea clippers of composite construction were brought out, combining the best of both worlds. Composite clippers had the strength of an...
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  • turbocharged piston engines and featuring an extremely long span wing of composite construction, one aircraft was built in the 1990s, but was abandoned despite...
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  • The technique of composite ship construction (wooden planking over a wrought iron frame) emerged in the mid-19th century as the final stage in the evolution...
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    Fibre cement (category Composite materials)
    Fibre cement is a composite building and construction material, used mainly in roofing and facade products because of its strength and durability. One...
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    Composite armour is a type of vehicle armour consisting of layers of different materials such as metals, plastics, ceramics or air. Most composite armours...
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    any advantage of composite construction. For most practical non-mounted archery purposes, self bows can perform as well as composite; "the initial velocity...
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