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NASA pushes new wing design to find structural limits

NASA researchers recently put a new wing design, long and thin with a lightweight structure, through a series of grueling ...

Boeing’s ‘airplane that never flies’: Exclusive look at how the 777-9 is pushed through three lifetimes

Every few minutes, a Boeing 777-9 suspended inside a massive steel test rig at company's Everett facility experiences another ...
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Researchers mimicked bird bones to create lightweight, high-performance structures

Using bird bone structure as inspiration, Xin Ning and Sepideh Ebad Sichani, Ph.D. '26, have created a new class of aircraft ...

The B-21 Raider airframe integrates radar-absorbent material directly into its composite structure in a way no previous stealth aircraft has done

The B-21's revolution in stealth technology from nose to tail.
IEEE

Multimodal Deep Learning for Predictive Analysis of Lightweight Composites in Aircraft Structures

Abstract: The integration of lightweight composite materials including Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers (CFRP), or Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers (GFRP) that improve structural integrity, as well as ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Never-Ending Race to Build the World’s Tallest Structure

Ever since humans began building, they’ve been building up. Throughout the millennia, our constructions have reached higher and higher into the sky, spurred by various motivations: religion, democracy ...
engineerlive.com

Largest composite aircraft structure optimised with smart software

When the Stratolaunch aircraft rolled out of the Mojave, California Air and Space Port hangar last spring in preparation for ground testing, it was a clear example of how far the design and ...