Meanwhile at the NASA Engineering ... of moving to a carbon composite design for the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). The team looked into a geometrically stiffened laminate, a stiffened honeycomb ...

And because the laminate has already been consolidated during layup ... The company recently signed a $7 million (USD) contract for development of a demonstration composite LOX tank, under NASA's ...

NASA has subjected an 8.4-foot-tall barrel made of composite materials to a series of abuse for the sake of building lighter and stronger rockets. The agency put it under extreme loads of almost ...

NASA has selected The Boeing Company of Huntington Beach, Calif., for the Composite Cryotank Technologies Demonstration effort. Under the contract, Boeing will design, manufacture and test two ...

Engineers have already demonstrated the principles before, but NASA’s new project will specifically showcase a promising boom design constructed of flexible composite polymer materials ...

Sandwich composites can be visualized as splitting a monolithic composite laminate in the middle and inserting a low ... A skin panel is defined as the intersection between two ribs and spars. The ...

Twelve companies and two academic organizations received a total of $50 million in NASA’s latest round of funding for the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project. The awardees are ...

The “Lego-like” construction and analysis method proposed in the study enables fast and accurate virtual testing of composite laminates, leading to optimal designs while saving time and ...

On Tuesday, researchers at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton talked about its next-generation solar sail technology, called the "Advanced Composite Solar Sail System." Solar sails use the ...

Composite laminates, consisting of bonded layers of different materials, find extensive applications in various industries, including aerospace, automobiles, and shipbuilding sectors due to their ...