Researchers have developed a simple new technique for identifying and repairing small, potentially dangerous cracks in high-performance aircraft wings and many other structures made from polymer ...

The radome on this Fokker F100 suffered significant damage, losing its structural integrity. Credit: Poland State Commission on Aircraft Accident Investigation Aircraft radomes are precisely ...

Dale Brosius , Contributing Writer, Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) The properties of advanced composites are highly attractive to aerospace engineers, in particular ...

The crashworthiness of aircraft structures is a critical aspect of aerospace design, directly influencing occupant survivability and overall safety performance during impact events. This field ...

Over the past 25 years, thermoplastic composites (TPCs) have increasingly earned their way onto commercial and military aircraft. They’ve done so through the efforts of a few pioneering companies that ...

With the completion of the project TOAST (ThermOplast Additive Manufacturing STrukturen), Premium AEROTEC present the impressive potential which a modern hybrid design of carbon fibre reinforced ...

The certification of an entire aircraft structure is extremely complex. There are different aspects an applicant for structural approval must consider to prove that the strength of that structure ...