Materials Testing

Sustainability

Composites testing at elevated temperature and moisture content

Dr. Donald F. Adams (Wyoming Test Fixtures Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah) notes the renewed interest in testing composites under hygrothermal conditions.

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Aerospace

Tooling block makes affordable patterns for new superlight aircraft

Tooling for a new canard-winged pusher airplane, the e-Go (e-Go Airplanes of Cambridge, U.K.), was created from patterns made of EP678 epoxy tooling block, supplied by the Advanced Engineering Materials Product Group of Trelleborg Offshore UK (Skelmersdale, Lancashire, U.K.)

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Impact testing of composite materials

Dr. Donald F. Adams (Wyoming Test Fixtures (Salt Lake City, Utah) discusses the methods for impact testing of composites.

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Aerospace

Testing the damage tolerance of composite materials

Dr. Donald F. Adams (Wyoming Test Fixtures, Salt Lake City, Utah) looks at standards and also-rans in the area of testing for damage tolerance.

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Adhesives

Material deformation and recovery test methods

Dr. Donald F. Adams (Wyoming Test Fixtures Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah) reviews ways and means to quantify composite material deformation and recovery.

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Comparison of shear-loaded compression test fixtures

Dr. Donald F. Adams compares the three basic types of shear-loaded compression test fixtures.

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Composite propeller for Royal Navy minehunter

Composite-for-metal replacement brings multiple benefits.

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Laminate bearing/bypass interaction test methods

Dr. Donald F. Adams (Wyoming Test Fixtures Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah) reviews laminate bearing/bypass interaction test methods.

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Shared databases will expand composites use, in aerospace and beyond

CW Conferences director Scott Stephenson recalls some telling conference comments made by NIAR’s Yeow Ng on the subject of shared databases.

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The Combined Loading Compression (CLC) test method

Dr. Don Adams discusses the relative merits of the ASTM-adopted combined loading compression (CLC) test method.

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