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 ...

Composites have flown on commercial aircraft primary structures — those critical to flight — for more than 30 years, but only recently have they conquered the fuselage, wingbox and wings, most notably ...

LAKE FOREST, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AC&A Enterprises Holdings, LLC, (“AC&A”), a leading provider of composite and metallic parts in the aerospace, defense, space and specialty automobile markets, ...

Composite materials are used to make cars, planes and boats, and have been used to build minesweepers and small surface combatants. Now, the largest composite structure ever built—the DDG 1000 ...

Designers of high-performance composite components rediscover the art of stitching. Composites increasingly replace metals in aerospace components because they are much lighter. In aerospace, weight ...