Extreme Engineering: High Temperature Composites Explained
Mon, Apr 13, 2026
Nickel superalloys are tough. Seriously tough. For decades they have been the workhorses of jet engine hot sections, withstanding temperatures that would melt most metals into puddles. They’ve earned their reputation.
But they’ve hit a w... Read More
By Mentis Sciences
Braided Composite Manufacturing: Crafting A Better Future
Tue, Mar 10, 2026
In traditional composites, the kind designed around layers placed next to one another, like sheets stacked up on a table, that crack has an easy route. It glides between layers, like a letter opener through an envelope. The technical term is delamina... Read More
The Cardboard Box Problem: What Engineering Toolkits Get Wrong
Mon, Mar 09, 2026
Give a kid a STEM kit with step-by-step instructions and just see what happens.
They follow directions. They assemble parts. They reach the predetermined outcome. And then... nothing. The kit goes on a shelf. The learning stops. Mission accomplished... Read More
Prototyping for Aerospace: From the Screen to the Sky
Sun, Feb 15, 2026
How engineers are making planes that run on batteries and not hydrocarbons
Every modern airplane is built twice.
First on screens. Then in metal.
And that’s not a figure of speech. Airbus put it bluntly: "We're essentially manufacturing each aircr... Read More
Inside Composite Testing: The Detective Work Keeping Planes Aloft
Thu, Jan 29, 2026
And then there's the matter of cracks in airplane wings.
But they don't tell you they are there.
Down in that wing, wedged among sheets of carbon fiber as thin as a fingernail, where it would be impossible to spot an opening even with a microsc... Read More
Hypersonic Radome Materials: Engineering at the Extremes of Physics
Mon, Dec 08, 2025
Here's a challenge in materials engineering so steeped in science fiction it even sounds made up.
Design a substance that shields delicate electrical circuits when traveling at five times the speed of sound. The surface temperature exceeds the melti... Read More
Advanced Composites: Manufacturing Innovations Driving Performance Boundaries
Sat, Nov 15, 2025
Here's one material science fact that doesn't get enough credit: advanced composites are quietly enabling just about everything amazing in current aerospace.
That aircraft flying overhead? Composites. That satellite maintaining your GPS signal? Comp... Read More
Composite Engineering: The Multidisciplinary Approach Reshaping Aerospace
Thu, Jul 31, 2025
Aerospace engineering has quietly undergone a revolution where the old silos between materials scientists, structural engineers, and manufacturing specialists have completely collapsed. Modern composite development isn't about sequential handoffs bet... Read More
The Ultimate Challenge: Engineering Materials for Hypersonic Flight
Thu, May 15, 2025
The sleek aircraft sits in a specialized test chamber, its sharp leading edges and precisely contoured surfaces designed to cut through the atmosphere at speeds exceeding Mach 5—faster than a mile per second. At these velocities, the physics of... Read More
