For more than a half century, sheet-molding compound (SMC) has been a well understood and broadly applied composite technology, used in industries as diverse as automotive, rail, aviation, marine and ...

History: SMC Corp. of America, originally SMC Pneumatics Inc., was established in 1977 and moved from the northeast side of Indianapolis to Noblesville in 2009. The company is a subsidiary of ...

The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Remote Sensing Systems Directorate (RS) is bringing innovative space capabilities to the warfighter, the American people, and its allies by embracing rapid ...

LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center announced the completion of two major milestones in the development and fielding of its new ...

Under the UK government-funded research project, TUCANA, AOC AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), with Astar (Biscay, Spain), has developed a new sheet molding compound (SMC) based on Daron polyurethane ...

The achievement places the SMC system below the density of water and below most thermoplastic systems. The breakthrough represents a nearly 50% reduction from standard-density SMC materials and a 17% ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 100, Section 5: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS & MANUFACTURING (1991), pp. 426-436 (11 pages) Sheet Molding Composite (SMC) technology has advanced significantly in the surface smoothness ...