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

The company’s engineering heritage, combined with continuous investment in process automation and digital manufacturing, ...

Composite structures, comprising two or more distinct materials, are increasingly pivotal in modern engineering due to their superior strength‐to‐weight ratios and enhanced durability compared with ...

May 7, 2005 Inflatable structures (aka airbeams) have developed rapidly in recent times, finding application in a variety of new engineering projects ranging from military tents in Iraq and ...

Initiatives such as the Shift2Rail European programme are encouraging research into innovative rail product solutions with the aim of doubling the capacity of the European rail system, increasing its ...

ATK: Alliant Techsystems has delivered a technological first to NASA: a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule design that ...

Zero-thermal-expansion (ZTE) materials are widely used in precision optics, cryogenic equipment and sensors, where even small ...

Aluminum-coated glass and basalt fiber nonwovens with a 20-80 decibal shielding range address the growing need for EMI ...

Purdue engineers are taking building possibilities to new heights with the university’s role in the research and development of an innovative high-rise construction process. Rainier Square, a 58-story ...

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Continuous Composites, a pioneer of advanced® composite 3D printing technology, has been chosen by NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program to ...

GKN Aerospace has successfully concluded a composite manufacturing and assembly research programme using of out of autoclave (OOA) processes and materials and PI shaped woven preforms. These ...