Posted on 10/6/2014 Source: Aerospace Manufacturing and Design Collier Research Corp.’s, James Ainsworth, who will present at CAMX, inspects a curved orthogrid shield drop-test specimen. Hampton, Virginia – At the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX)...
Posted on 10/1/2014 Source: Digital Engineering In February, President Obama announced the new Lightweight & Modern Metals Manufacturing Innovation Institute (LM3I), a consortium of universities, material providers and metal manufacturers whose mission is to help...
Posted on 9/1/2014Source: Composites World A look inside the increasingly well-equipped virtual toolbox for composite design, analysis, and manufacturing. In the world of software, buzzwords are endemic. But if one buzzword trumps all, today, in the...
Posted on 9/1/2014 Source: NASA Tech BriefsProtected by the shell of its huge launch rocket during blastoff, NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) must get back to Earth on its own at mission’s end. The flight plan for this next-generation craft includes a...
Posted on 2/3/2014 Source: NASA With the aim of carrying astronauts well beyond near Earth orbit to rendezvous with asteroids, the Moon, or Mars, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) spacecraft has no room for extra weight. That is why the engineers and...
Posted on 12/1/2013Source: Digital Engineering HyperSizer V7 from Collier Research has been fundamentally reconfigured for ease of use by the skilled non-expert. Composite materials have reached the engineering mainstream. They are in wide use in aerospace, windpower,...
