The AIoT paradigm, which combines AI with IoT, offers great advantages in manufacturing processes. However, its use in aeronautical testing is still incipient, since this kind of test must ensure strict safety requirements. This study presents one AI...
Aerospace structural components are in a complex stress state when they undertake load due to their specific geometric construction. Their fatigue behavior is quite different from the materials that undertake the standard stress state. The research o...
Large-scale aerospace components (e.g., wings, fuselage sections, wing boxes, and rocket segments) feature large dimensions, low stiffness, complex interfaces, and strict assembly tolerances. Traditional rigid tooling and manual alignment struggle to...
The emerging technology of 3D printing can not only be used for rapid prototyping, but will also play an important role in space exploration. Additive manufactured parts can be used in diverse space applications, such as magnetic shields, heat pipes,...
Polyurethane (PU) is a highly versatile class of polymer utilised in many industries, including the aerospace sector. In conjunction with its superior mechanical properties, chemical resistance, and durability, it can be highly flammable depending on...
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) has matured from its infancy in the research stage to the fabrication of a wide range of commercial functional applications. In particular, at present, metal AM is now popular in the aerospace industry to build and r...
Real service requirements of the assembly performance and joining properties of design components are critical for composite usage in the aerospace industry. This experimental study offers a novel and comprehensive analysis of dry drilling optimizati...
Electronic components play a fundamental role in critical missions, performing functions such as data processing, measurement of physical variables, data storage, communication, power generation and storage, and algorithm computation. However, their...
Self-healing polymers and nanocomposites form an important class of responsive materials. These materials have the capability to reversibly heal their damage. For aerospace applications, thermosets and thermoplastic polymers have been reinforced with...
Injection molding technology has been widely adopted to fabricate multifunctional polymeric components or structural parts for applications in fields such as automotives, electronics, packaging, aerospace, and many others [...]
Auxetic lattice structures are three-dimensionally designed intricately repeating units with multifunctionality in three-dimensional space, especially with the emergence of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies. In aerospace applications, these st...
The increasing demand for lightweight aerospace structures has driven the continuous development of ultra-high-strength aluminum alloys (UHSAAs). Owing to their low density and high specific strength, UHSAAs remain the primary materials for next-gene...
As advanced structural materials, titanium alloys have found extensive applications in aerospace, medical devices, and precision electronics industries, serving as critical components for achieving lightweight designs in high-end equipment. In aerosp...
Welding and joining of metallic materials are foundational technologies for modern manufacturing in sectors such as aerospace, automotive, marine, and civil infrastructure, where complex assemblies and highly loaded structural components must be prod...
The aviation industry, responsible for a significant portion of global CO2 emissions, faces the need to transition to more sustainable aircraft. Electric aircraft driven by battery-powered propulsion and further structural weight reductions have emer...
This review examines the essential application of non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques in assessing the integrity and damage of composite materials used in aerospace engineering, focusing on polymer matrix composites (PMCs), metal matrix composit...
In aerospace engineering applications, lightweight material structures are considered to perform difficult service conditions and afford energy efficiency. Therefore, composite materials have gained popularity due to their light weights and high perf...
Spinning extrusion forming (SEF) is a type of rheologic forming process for making complex structured aerospace components, such as ribbed cylindric shells. However, our understanding of the texture evolution and recrystallization behavior during the...
Advances in additive manufacturing (AM) have revolutionized various sectors, including aerospace engineering, where the use of lattice structures has enabled the development of lightweight high-performance components with optimized mechanical propert...
Active infrared thermography is a fast and accurate non-destructive evaluation technique that is of particular relevance to the aerospace industry for the inspection of aircraft and helicopters’ primary and secondary structures, aero-engine parts, sp...
Selective laser melting (SLM) is an additive manufacturing (AM) process which is used for producing metallic components. Currently, the integrity of components produced by SLM is in need of improvement due to residual stresses and unknown fracture be...
AI-integrated robotics in Industry 5.0 demands advanced manufacturing systems capable of autonomously interpreting complex geometries and dynamically adjusting machining strategies in real time—particularly when dealing with aerospace component...
Polycarbonate is a thermoplastic material well known for its high impact resistance and thermal stability, making it a strong candidate for non-structural aerospace applications. Within the framework of the LIDER project for the techno brick BUS, the...
Large and complex ring forgings are key structural parts of the aerospace field, and their quality is closely related to the reliability of aerospace vehicles. However, high-quality production of aerospace ring forgings faces many problems, such as t...
This study investigates the machining deformation of thick aluminum alloy plates, specifically in aerospace frame components, focusing on the influence of asymmetric residual stress states and machining strategies. Aluminum alloys are commonly used f...
Reducing structural mass and volume is critical to improving efficiency and payload capacity in next-generation small satellites and CubeSats. Additive manufacturing, particularly material extrusion, offers design flexibility and enables the producti...
Delamination in reinforced panels is one of the primary challenges facing the safety and reliability of aerospace structures. This article presents a sensitivity analysis of the fatigue behaviour during the compression of a composite aeronautical sti...
New concepts of lightweight components are conceived nowadays thanks to the advances in the manufacture of composite structures. For instance, mature technologies such as Automatic Fibre Placement (AFP) are employed in the fabrication of structural p...
Laser-directed energy deposition (DED) offers significant potential for the additive manufacturing of thin-walled Inconel 718 aerospace components. However, the structural defects readily formed during deposition, along with the extensive precipitati...
Corrosion is a critical issue for engineered metallic components in mechanical and aerospace industries. Due to the complexity of aerospace aluminum alloy structure, corrosion is particularly tend to occur and expand in stress concentration areas, su...
Integrating machine learning into additive manufacturing offers transformative opportunities to optimize material properties and design high-performance, fatigue-resistant structures for critical applications in aerospace, biomedical, and structural...
The transition of large-scale cryogenic propellant tanks from metal to composite materials is the main trend in the global aerospace industry. Aiming to address the challenges of achieving the manufacturing of integrated and cost-effective manufactur...
Lattice structures are widely used in the aerospace and biomedical fields, due to their lightweight, high specific strength, large specific surface area, good biocompatibility, etc. However, the balancing of the weight and the mechanical properties r...
The deformation of structural alloys presents problems for power plants and aerospace applications due to the demand for elevated temperatures for higher efficiencies and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The materials used in such applications...
Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) features high deposition rates and, thus, allows production of large components that are relevant for aerospace applications. However, a lot of aerospace parts are currently produced by forging or machining alon...
Ranging from the most demanding technical applications to soft, extremely ductile wrapping foil, aluminum is one of the most versatile and reasonably priced metallic materials. These are attributable to the unique blend of features that it provides,...
CuCrZr/GH4169 multi-material structures combine the high thermal conductivity of copper alloys with the high strength of nickel-based superalloys, making them suitable for aerospace components that require efficient heat dissipation and high strength...
Ceramic materials are indispensable to aerospace and defence technologies, where structural and functional components are required to withstand extreme thermal, mechanical, and chemically aggressive environments. Traditionally valued for their except...
Engineering practice requires the use of structures containing identical components or parts, which are useful from several points of view: less information is needed to describe the system, design is made quicker and easier, components are made fast...
Thin-walled structures are of great interest because of their use as lightweight components in aeronautical and aerospace engineering. The fabrication of these components by additive manufacturing (AM) often produces undesired warpage because of the...
This research presents a novel methodology for lightweighting and cost reduction of components with high structural demands by integrating advanced design and manufacturing techniques. Specifically, it combines topology optimization (TO) with additiv...
Aerospace fasteners are a ubiquitous component within the aerospace, air-frame, and aero-engine industries due to the essential role they play in structural integrity. Ti-6Al-4V is a common material for fasteners to be manufactured from, owing to the...
Herringbone gear pairs are critical in high-speed aerospace transmissions, where windage power loss significantly impacts efficiency and thermal management. This study proposes a prediction method that decomposes the total windage loss into five comp...
Composite-to-metal interference-fit is widely used in the aerospace field, where the problem of the damage and failure of composite materials is particularly critical. A numerical study was conducted on the damage and failure of carbon fiber composit...
This paper presents a 3-component external balance, specifically designed, built, and calibrated at the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) for measuring aerodynamic forces on Micro Aerial Vehicles in the wind tunnel. The balance emplo...
The need for ever lighter and more efficient aerospace structures and components has led to continuous optimization pushing the limits of structural performance. In order to ensure continued safe operation during long term service it is desirable to...
Lightweight structures with an internal lattice infill and a closed shell have received a lot of attention in the last 20 years for satellites, due to their improved stiffness, buckling strength, multifunctional design, and energy absorption. The geo...
Promoting the development of aerospace vehicles toward structural–functional integration and intelligent sensing is a key strategy for achieving lightweight, high-reliability, and autonomous operation and maintenance of next-generation aircraft...
Atomic oxygen (AtOx) is a major component of the space environment between 200 and 800 km (LEO—low Earth orbit region) and is the principal source of erosion for exposed aerospace structures. The damage to surface materials is proportional to t...
Surface coating materials have many applications in various sectors, such as aerospace, medical technology, packaging, and construction, due to their unique properties, including self-healing, corrosion resistance, and protection from external factor...
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