LYON, France–A manufacturing issue in the Zefiro 40 second stage’s nozzle led to the failure of the first commercial mission for Avio’s Vega-C launcher on Dec. 20, 2022, the results of an ...

Researchers from the Skoltech Petroleum Center presented new results that will improve the predictions of stress redistribution used in strength models of composite materials, which will result in ...

Thanks to the innovative radar scanner, defects in the material composition of the wind turbine blades can now be detected with far greater accuracy and visualized in a cross-sectional view, thereby ...

A research project undertaken by the Bristol Composites Institute (BCI) at the University of Bristol used laser profile sensors from Micro-Epsilon to detect defects formed during the composites ...

In the world of materials, the phrase “too big to fail” does not apply. According to the well known “size effect,” defects tend to arise in materials as they are synthesized in the lab. As the defects ...