ASW-12 sailplane derived from the “Gummiflügel” prototype. Photo Credit: Wo st 01 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php ...

Fig. 1. Hand-machined scarf through three plies of CF unidirectional (UD) tape and one ply of CF plain woven fabric at 0.5-inch (nominal) distance per ply. Note the small amount of breakthrough at the ...

Airbus has established a dedicated training programme for inspections and repairs of composite airframe structures. The manufacturer says the new course has been developed to meet European Union ...

Deployable composite structures and mechanisms represent a frontier in materials engineering, where innovative fabrication techniques and advanced design principles are utilised to create lightweight, ...

HEATCON Composite Training opened a new training facility in Manila, Philippines. One-week courses cover damage assessment and repair techniques for composite structures. This content requires a ...

“Multiscale Structural Mechanics: Top-Down Modeling of Composite Structures Using Mechanics of Structure Genome” delivers a unified approach to composites modeling based on the concept of structure ...

Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance and Bombardier Aerospace executives agree there is still some way to go before bonded repairs will be accepted on primary composite structures.

Laminated fiber-reinforced composite materials are being used in more and more engineering applications. These materials have excellent strength-to-weight ratios and the manufacturing processes that ...