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2026-07-12
CAPTAIN LIN RAUCH
Carbon fibre leaves the wing: how aerospace composites learn to span and brace
How aerospace CFRP and robotic fibre placement are reshaping structural spanning and bracing — the weight win, the brittle failure mode, and the recovery loop.
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2026-07-05
CAPTAIN LIN RAUCH
Mass timber, structurally: how CLT turned wood into a load path you can stack
How cross-laminated timber turned engineered wood into a two-way structural plate that carries mid-rise buildings - plus the supply-chain risk nobody draws.
[MATERIALS]
2026-07-01
CAPTAIN LIN RAUCH
Graphene leaves the lab bench and lands in the concrete mixer — mind the supply graph
Graphene is shipping as a real concrete and coating additive in 2026. What it does, why dispersion is the failure mode, and the supply-chain dependency to draw first.
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2026-06-30
CAPTAIN LIN RAUCH
The façade as a circuit: metamaterials move light, sound and heat by geometry, not bulk
Metamaterials let a façade bend light, sound and heat by geometry, not bulk. The systems read: where the unit cell becomes the spec, and what it depends on.
