Short cycle times and automated methods are key to meeting the high production rates being sought for the next generation of narrowbody commercial aircraft, advanced air mobility (AAM), unmanned ...

Changing the way a plant forms cellulose may lead to more efficient, less expensive biofuel production, according to Penn State engineers. "What every biofuel manufacturer wants to do is to get to the ...

There is a high chance that specific shapes and mechanical properties are required when sourcing an alloy product for an industrial, medical, or consumer application. This is where cold working ...

What causes failure in dies and tooling? It’s a function of tool material selection, one expert advised. Metal forming is critical to industrial operations supplying automotive parts and structural ...

Material is built up layer by layer until the complete part is made. Some additive processes use a liquid material, others use material in a powder form. A variety of materials, both plastic, and ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

MTorres used hot drape forming to preform undirectional tape blanks in the Clean Sky 2 IIAMS wing box program. Photo Credit, all images: IIAMS project, Airbus Defence and Space, MTorres. This online ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers traced how Milky Way–like galaxies formed and changed over time.