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Matt Dawson
- Mar 14
- 2 min
Back to Basics with Wet-Layup!
19 years ago I produced my first ever composite moulding. I remember it well - a fuselage component for a light aircraft prototype laminated on my first day at AEL (now Airborne UK). As an introduction to the world of composites, it's fitting that it was made using the time-honoured 'wet-layup' method - hard to forget the sense of excitement felt when glass fabric and a pot of resin are combined for the first time to produce a strong yet lightweight part! Fast-forward 19 y
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Matt Dawson
- Dec 19, 2020
- 1 min
Happy Christmas from Orthotropic
Wishing all our friends, customers and suppliers a happy Christmas and a healthy 2021! After a year of lockdowns, restrictions and virus-dodging, we're very much looking forward to getting out and about again as soon as safely possible! In the meantime, please don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd like to talk composites design or analysis! Happy Christmas, Matt #OrthotropicEngineering #CompositeMaterials #CarbonFibre #RenewableEnergy #ZeroCarbon #TidalEnergy #WaveEnergy #
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Matt Dawson
- Oct 24, 2020
- 2 min
Orthotropic turns 2!
This week at #OrthotropicEngineering we're marking the successful completion of our second full year in business. Fair to say that it's been an unexpectedly eventful few months so we're extremely grateful to our clients for their custom, enabling our continued growth despite the difficult times in which we presently live. Our main focus this year has been the ongoing development of our design, analysis and consultancy services, targeted primarily at structural applications o
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Matt Dawson
- Oct 23, 2020
- 2 min
Orthotropic designs test rig for RheEnergise
The sun shines when it shines and the wind blows when it blows: But when it's both dark and calm, it's not possible to take advantage of the ever-increasing wind and solar capacity installed in and around the UK. It follows that energy storage is one of the key technologies needed to enable our urgent transition to #Zerocarbon. British company #RheEnergise is adapting the tried and tested pumped water storage method to enormously enhance its viability and uptake. Their so
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Matt Dawson
- Nov 19, 2019
- 1 min
Access bridge build progress
Exciting pictures arriving from Jack Lindsay who's busy building the 14m access bridge recently designed at #OrthotropicEngineering. Fast progress and looking like great workmanship! The first picture shows the structural layout of the bridge to good effect: Longitudinal steel box members provide the bending strength, stabilised by regularly spaced vertical box members and transverse I-section beams. The second picture (below) captures the diagonal lacing added to each sid
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