There is an important, ongoing debate in aerospace composites. Critics of the “building block approach” (BBA) used to generate design allowables claim that the required testing of thousands of ...

LUXEMBOURG / ACCESSWIRE / November 13, 2019 / e-Xstream engineering, a market leader in materials simulation software and engineering services and part of Hexagon, announces advanced new capabilities ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--You’ve heard of key reference books such as Dr. Spock’s Baby and Childcare or The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Battelle’s contribution to the aerospace reference pantheon, ...

The lamina and laminate material property data have been generated with FAA oversight and in accordance with the requirements of NCAMP Standard Operating Procedure NSP 100. The test panels, test ...

Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) announces the release of a significant update to the Composite Materials Handbook (CMH-17) Volume 5. CMH-17 Volume 5 Revision ...

The building block approach, "BBA," has traditionally been a way to produce design data in a way that represents a structured process to go from coupons to element to sub-components to panels to PSEs ...

NCAMP, the National Center for Advanced Materials Performance, works with the FAA and industry partners to qualify material systems and populate a shared materials database that can be viewed publicly ...

America Makes has selected General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to lead a $5.5 million program developing material allowables for a scandium-aluminum alloy across three classes of laser ...

Qualification of composite materials — particularly prepregs for aerospace applications — traditionally has been so time-consuming and expensive that its funding usually comes from one of the ...