October 9, 2012 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Repair in New Generation Aircraft: Challenges and Opportunities Lightweight composites will soon rival metals as the primary material for airframes. Are you ...

A newly designed self-healing composite material can repair itself over 1,000 times. Developed by ...

Researchers created a fiber-reinforced composite that resisted delamination and repeatedly healed itself using heat-activated ...

AGFM’s portable scarfing/composite repair system (PS/CRS) concept is developed for fast, on-site scarfing of damaged composite aircraft components. It also works together with NIAR-developed software ...

Researchers have created a self-healing composite that is tougher than materials currently used in aircraft wings, turbine ...

Scientists have invented a futuristic material that heals itself capable of lasting for decades or centuries on aircraft and ...

GKN Aerospace is harnessing leading-edge laser technology to automate the repair of composite structures. The repaired structure has the strength of the current manual repair but is achieved with ...

New self-healing FRP composite repairs damage 1,000+ times and could extend aircraft and turbine lifespans to centuries.

To assess durability, the team built an automated system that repeatedly applied tensile force to a composite with a ...

This second installment of a three-part look at the first 100 years of powered flight focuses on the materials used by aircraft pioneers and manufacturers. As always in engineering, the drive has been ...

Making fan blades for airplanes used to be pretty straightforward, but now it’s a whole different ballgame. We’re talking ...

Aircraft Composite Repair Management Forum October 9, 2012 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Repair in New Generation Aircraft: Challenges and Opportunities Lightweight composites will soon rival metals as ...