Composites Use in Aerospace - Page 323 of 391

Aerospace

Consumer 26 Aug 2015

Automated preform process boosts properties and cuts cycle time

Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) achieves optimized fiber orientation for up to 150% increase in stiffness and reduced cycle time, weight and material waste.

Biomaterials 19 Aug 2015

Looking to lighten up aircraft interiors? Try natural fibers!

Aircraft OEMs are striving to make their products more efficient, with improved engines and ever-increasing use of composite materials, including in aircraft interiors.

Aerospace 11 Aug 2015

NASA to build biggest composite rocket parts ever made

The robotic system is part of the Composites Technology Center at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.

Space 3 Aug 2015

NTSB: SpaceShipTwo design did not anticipate human factors

The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says Scaled Composites failed to consider and protect against human error, which led to the October 2014 crash of the spacecraft.

Aerospace 31 Jul 2015

Designing SHM systems

SHM systems must be designed properly, including self-diagnostic ability to ensure they function as designed.

Adhesives 31 Jul 2015

Structural health monitoring: The toolbox

There are a broad range of SHM technologies that take advantage of a variety of sensing mechanisms. Here's a short sketch of each, accompanied by tables that indicate current uses and developmental progress.

Workforce Development 31 Jul 2015

Structural health monitoring: NDT-integrated aerostructures

SHM moves from structural testing to an FAA-qualified inspection alternative, to reduce cost, streamline operations and mature toward lighter, more robust smart structures

Materials Testing 31 Jul 2015

Structural health monitoring: Decades of demos build confidence

Current momentum in local structural health monitoring development can be credited to a great deal of developmental effort on the part of these system developers.

Aerospace 31 Jul 2015

Aeroengine Composites, Part 1: The CMC invasion

As pressure for commercial aircraft fuel efficiency continues to mount, ceramic matrix composites evolve as they battle metals for application in the engine hot-zone and elsewhere.

Mass Transit 31 Jul 2015

Additive manufacturing: The past, present — and future — of composites

A regular CW columnist and the chief commercialization officer for the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), Dale Brosius offers this insightful look into why it's unwise to use the terms "3D printing" and "additive manufacturing" interchangeably.