Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
News: Manufacturing & Prototyping
It’s not just for exotic “supercars” and motorcycles anymore. The performance-enhancing attributes of carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics continue to be explored by global automakers as they...
Articles: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Fiber lasers have found widespread applications in industrial material processing, scientific research and military systems due to their advantages of easy maintenance,...
Articles: Materials
Reinforcing polymers with strong/stiff fibers is nothing new. Such materials have been used pretty much since aircraft were first created. In those pioneering days, wings were reinforced with woven...
Articles: Aerospace
Parker Steel Company (Maumee, OH) offers metric-sized metals suitable for applications where presized metric parts are needed....
Briefs: Aerospace
Joining of composites can be a challenging issue. If adhesives are used, the joints are permanent and cannot be undone. If they need to be undone, inserts are often used and these inserts increase cost...
Briefs: Aerospace
Conventional composite materials, in which a matrix material is reinforced by particulates, whiskers, and/or continuous fibers, have long been of interest as potential...
Articles: Aerospace
Sintered fiber metal composites are used in aircraft as an acoustic media within environmental ducting, inlet and exhaust systems. The material can be engineered to meet...
Application Briefs: Defense
Badinières, France
+33 (0)4 74 43 10 10
www.porcher-ind.com
Porcher Industries, a company that specializes in technical textiles and thermoplastic composite solutions,...
Briefs: Photonics/Optics
One obstacle in the scaling of high-power fiber lasers arises because of nonlinear effects (e.g., stimulated...
Briefs: Defense
YAG-based fiber lasers could offer efficient operation at power levels beyond those achievable in current state-of-the-art silica-based fiber...
Articles: Test & Measurement
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is comprised of more than fifty percent carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) due to the material’s light weight and...
Briefs: Aerospace
Electrospinning is a nanofiber fabrication technique that has grown in popularity due to its potential in numerous biomedical applications. The...
Briefs: Defense
Currently small boat combatant design focuses primarily on speed and maneuverability. It would be advantageous to expand these capabilities to include reduced radar...
Articles: Aerospace
The search for lighter weight, stronger materials to construct airplanes and spacecraft remains as important as ever. But it takes a long time for new materials in aerospace structures to make their way into...
Briefs: Aerospace
Work on structural composites with tunable chiral elements has produced electronically tunable overall chiral composites, mechanically tunable chiral composites, flat lenses with soft hyperbolic...
Briefs: Aerospace
Advanced, Single-Polymer, Nanofiber-Reinforced Composite
A strategic goal of the U.S. Air Force is to be able to deliver munitions to targets anywhere around the globe in less than an hour. This will require very high speeds and novel lightweight and temperature-resistant materials. Nanocomposites are promising emerging materials for structural...
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Aging infrastructure has a major impact on safety, increasing the need to assess damage severity. Machinery, systems, and components such as...
Technology Update: Defense
TRB Lightweight Structures Ltd. recently released an aerospace-grade lightweight honeycomb composite panel designed for interior applications, expanding the application areas for its range of...
Application Briefs: Defense
Alkmaar, The Netherlands
+31-72-5614644
www.egmondplastic.nl
Fuel housings for aerospace applications have very complex inner geometries which are not moldable using conventional...
Briefs: Aerospace
Testing was performed on Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) fabric and composite material in a flash flame environment when...
Articles: Aerospace
"Composite design and analysis is a highly integrated activity,” said Chris Gear, Chief Technology Officer & Senior Technical Fellow for GKN Aerospace. He noted that how composite material is placed,...
Briefs: Aerospace
The efficiency and methodology of coupling light into microcavities has improved exponentially in the last decade. One such advancement is coupling light onto silicon microspheres. The material, size, and...
Articles: Materials
Faster, lighter, stronger, hotter – words anyone working on military product development is all too used to hearing. In a world where advanced computer modeling and simulation packages are...
Technology Update: Aerospace
Toho Tenax Co., Ltd. announced Nov. 6 that it has developed a new prepreg — a carbon-fiber sheet pre-impregnated with matrix resin — that offers super-high-heat and...
Briefs: Defense
A thin, uniform coating on long segments of monofilament could drastically improve the functionality of many complex fibers. A length of fishing line, microtubing, or polylactic...
Briefs: Physical Sciences
Using the current method of characterizing waveguides manufactured for research in optical communications, it can take up to 8 hours to characterize the...
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