The use of composites offers many benefits to the functionality of both materials and structures, making them integral to many engineering design considerations, including cost, sustainability, fuel ...

Although the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Composites Affordability Initiative (CAI) demonstrated technologies for manufacturing large, integrated and bonded composite aerospace structures — a ...

Advanced composites play a crucial role in efforts to achieve a carbon-neutral future, enabling structures that are simultaneously resistant and lightweight, and therefore energy-efficient, for ...

Unitized, adhesively bonded composite primary structures on aircraft could offer substantial cost savings by dramatically reducing part and fastener counts, as well as time and labor for airframe ...

US Senator Susan Collins announced that the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Advanced Research Projects Agency–Infrastructure (ARPA-I) is moving forward with an US$8 million partnership with ...