General aviation aircraft, large commercial jets and wind turbines are vulnerable to lightning strike. FAA-certified aircraft, for example, are typically struck once or twice a year. Unlike their ...

“Self-responsive” nanomaterial-based composites AMRC’s Matthew Collinson (top photo) inspects a composite demonstrator component incorporating carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and copper contacts to enable ...

A carbon composite inner skin for the LEAP-1C engine’s O-Duct is formed via a specialty molding process, used for the first time in the program to build aero-structures for the CFM International ...

A hairline crack forms deep inside an aircraft wing, invisible to the naked eye but capable of growing into a catastrophic failure. Today, finding and fixing that kind of damage means grounding the ...

Analysing failed fibre composite aircraft structures will be a significant challenge for regulators investigating the causes of aircraft accidents in the future, according to the Australian Transport ...

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The University of Texas at Arlington has received a $600,000 grant from Boeing to test composite components that officials believe will lead to longer-lasting aircraft and identify when those ...

Innovations in thermoplastics, carbon fibers, hybrid composites, and automation are pivotal Aerospace Composites Market ...

CTC GmbH – An Airbus Company has won a JEC Composites Innovation Award for SAUBER4.0, a holistically networked manufacturing approach which aims to make large composite aircraft structures, including ...

iSurface, a project led by Munro Technology, Z Prime, Axalp Technologies AG and researchers from Swiss university of applied sciences FHNW (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz), unveiled a new intelligent ...

In 2014 and 2015, at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, a strange-looking twin-boom aircraft ...