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Briefs: Materials
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In August 2017, Qantas Airlines laid down the challenge to both Boeing and Airbus to offer an aircraft that can cross one of aviation's “last frontiers.” That “last frontier” was an...
Articles: Aerospace
In industries such as aerospace, characterized by extreme operating environments that push materials and components to the edge of their design capabilities, companies...
Articles: Aerospace
Parker Steel Company (Maumee, OH) offers metric-sized metals suitable for applications where presized metric parts are needed....
Briefs: Materials
The protection of cathodic metallic materials used for aircraft components, like 4340, Aermet 100, and PH 13-8 corrosion-resistant steel, is critical...
Articles: Electronics & Computers
High-power laser diodes can generate a great deal of heat. Even for laser diodes operating with 70% or higher efficiency, a large amount of applied energy is converted to heat. Since the performance and...
Articles: Aerospace
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: Defense
Hull, deck plate, and tank inspection for corrosion, deformation, and fractures is a necessary part of ship maintenance to ensure functional integrity and proper operation of the...
Briefs: Materials
Aging infrastructure has a major impact on safety, increasing the need to assess damage severity. Machinery, systems, and components such as...
Briefs: Defense
Multifunctional composites have been investigated for destruction of bio-agents. These materials’ unique properties at the nano scale, including...
Technology Update: Defense
MTU Aero Engines announced in March that its internal experts and industry partners have jointly developed a new class of intermetallic, high-temperature materials for highly stressed...
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...
Articles: Software
Many of the computer simulation tools used today got their start in the Aerospace industry but their use has always been coupled with significant physical testing. The...
Technology Update: Test & Measurement
The use of composite materials for construction of aerospace components began in the early 1980s and is now the material of choice for commercial and military airframe...
Articles: Materials
Briefs: Materials
Corrosion is a deforming process that costs the United States Department of Defense (DOD) approximately $23 billion annually and accounts for 23% of all DOD maintenance. Exhaustive...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Characterization of Ceramic Composite Materials Using Terahertz Nondestructive Evaluation Techniques
This work describes the use of nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques to characterize defects such as rust, voids, etc. in materials,...
Briefs: Materials
When a high-energy laser (HEL) beam transmits through a window material, a part of the laser energy is absorbed by the material and causes optical aberrations. This absorbed energy results...
Application Briefs: Defense
Corrosion of steel, aluminum, and other structural metals erodes the safety and financial stability of industries and countries alike. Fighting corrosion in ships, tanks, planes, and...
Briefs: Materials
Advanced composite materials are increasingly replacing metals in the aerospace industry as they offer weight-saving improvements such as high...
Briefs: Materials
Reactive nanoparticles as energetic materials have received much recent attention for a variety of existing and/or potential applications. Among more extensively...
Briefs: Medical
Progress has been made in a continuing effort to develop surgically implantable, biocompatible electrochemical- sensor arrays for continuous measurement of concentrations of analytes...
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
An experimental study of self-assembly processes in which small, heterogeneous components become spontaneously aligned with each other and bonded through soldering of mating electrical...
Briefs: Materials
Composites of glucose oxidase (GOx), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and biologically synthesized silica have been synthesized and tested. These composites are prototypes of biological/electrical...
Briefs: Materials
Alloys are being developed for nozzles of hypersonic wind tunnels to be used in testing components of future hypersonic missiles, aircraft, and space transportation systems. The nozzle components...
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Amethod and apparatus have been conceived for using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) for determining rates of corrosion of coupled metals. EIS has been used heretofore for...
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