In the effort to drive down costs in all areas of the aircraft life cycle, lightweight materials such as composites are being used to produce innovative designs, reduced manufacturing and assembly ...

In my August 2021 column, I introduced the composites building block approach as a step-by-step series of mechanical tests of increasing complexity, coupled with analyses performed at each step, that ...

The history of modern composites started after the Second World War, with the pioneers and a fair number of small processors using open-mould technology to manufacture the first composite parts. We ...