Winning an Innovation Award at JEC Composites was the icing on the cake for Fokker Aerostructures’ development team. As Dr Neil Calder discovers, the roots of this innovation go much deeper into the development of the portfolio of design and manufacturing......

Technical manager of aerostructures at QinetiQ, Dr Bernd Vermeulen, discusses the latest developments driving the expanding role of composite materials in the aerospace industry. Quoted in 1956, Nobel Prize winner Robert Solow said “About 88% of economic......

A recently completed first stage of trials at Fokker Aerostructures in Hoogeveen, The Netherlands, has seen further development of the common industrial robot as an alternative option for the production of structural carbon fibre thermoplastic products with a novel new......

Dr Christophe Mattei, senior scientist based at Exova, Linköping, Sweden looks at how integrated composite structures are challenging the traditional ways of performing NDT. ...

Mike Richardson discovers how Dormer Tools’ new Research Technology Centre helps its customers out of a hole by providing an understanding of the structure and machining characteristics of composites....

Morson Projects’ aerospace technical director, Syd Carson discusses the considerations that need to be made when designing for the manufacture of composite aerostructures....

The new generation of long range aircraft from Airbus and Boeing both represent a multitude of ‘firsts’ for the use of carbon fibre in critical structures, and in doing so have necessitated wholesale changes in the ways these components are produced. ...

The green agenda continues to dominate aerospace developments both from a regulatory perspective and from economic operating imperatives. CERAM’s principal consultant for aerospace and defence, Dr Chris Pickles looks at the applications of surface......

Sheer demand for composites is bringing about something of a revolution in aerospace, with high production rates demanding more of automation systems. John Cornforth of GKN Aerospace explains where progress is being made....

Lou Reade looks at how carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could be used to ‘stitch’ a whole host of composite structures together to make them stronger. ...