Professor Paul Hogg FIMMM and Dr Faye Smith FIMMM at Avalon Consultancy Services, UK, investigate the opportunities and challenges for fibre-reinforced polymer composites in zero-carbon emission flight. Led by the UK Aerospace Technology Institute and backed by the government, the FlyZero...
World-First: Speed of Sound used to Measure Elasticity of Materials. Researchers at the University of Nottingham have devised a revolutionary new technique for measuring the microscopic elasticity of materials for the first time. Known as SRAS, the technology works by measuring the speed of...
The Best 3D Printing Videos From 2021. The year 2021 has come to an end and 3Dnatives is taking a look at some of the best videos from the past 12 months. Between building houses, bridges, robots or car parts, the technology has developed greatly over the past year. Other industries, such as...
Nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize many of today’s advanced systems and machinery via the manipulation of matter on a near-atomic scale to produce new structures, materials, and devices. A team of researchers, writing in the journal Polymers , have synthesized a hybrid fibre...
The Art of Mixing: Shapeshifting and Shockwaves. University of Southern California researchers develop a tracking method in supersonic and hypersonic engines, paving the way for optimal combustion in high-speed flights. #News #Aerospace #Fuels
New Method to Predict Stress at Atomic Scale. The amount of stress a material can withstand before it cracks is critical information when designing aircraft, spacecraft, and other structures. Aerospace engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used machine learning for the first...
Meringue-Like Material Could Make Aircraft as Quiet as a Hairdryer. An incredibly light new material that can reduce aircraft engine noise and improve passenger comfort has been developed at the University of Bath. The graphene oxide-polyvinyl alcohol aerogel weighs just 2.1kg per cubic metre,...
Transformation Toughening of Ceramics Made Crystal Clear. Ceramic materials that are resistant to cracking are used in a variety of industries from aerospace engineering to dentistry. Toughening them to improve their efficiency and safety is therefore an important area of investigation....
Recycled Garnet Sand as a Source of Scandium? Some call it the "oil of the future." This is because demand for scandium is growing, especially due to its potential as a material for lightweight construction of aircrafts and cars, but also for fuel cells. Concurrently, the supply of this...
In the first part of this guest blog, Dr Ross Trepleton rom the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing looks back at the DRAMA (Digital Reconfigurable Additive Manufacturing facilities for Aerospace) programme. In the second one, Dr Trepleton looks at the opportunities for additive...
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