On November 28, 2023, a stakeholder event with around 100 participants took place in the context of the “Multi Functional Fuselage Demonstrator” (“MFFD”) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing ...
Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab has announced what it calls the world’s first software-defined aircraft fuselage, developed in collaboration with Divergent Technologies. The breakthrough combines ...
As part of the EU-funded Clean Sky 2/Clean Aviation project “Large Passenger Aircraft” (“LPA”), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Stade, Germany, together with international project partners, has joined ...
In 2022, NASA dropped an aircraft cabin (with six crash dummies) from 35 ft. The cabin was destroyed but showed the need to improve computer models. In 2022, NASA dropped a full-scale aircraft ...
The crashworthiness of aircraft structures is a critical aspect of aerospace design, directly influencing occupant survivability and overall safety performance during impact events. This field ...
As part of the EU’s Clean Sky 2 initiative, the aerospace industry is looking for flight path to sustainability, particularly through the transition from aluminum to carbon fiber-reinforced composites ...
A research team at Drexel University's College of Engineering, led by Professors Ahmad R. Najafi, Jonathan Awerbuch, and Tein-Min Tan of mechanical engineering and mechanics, has developed a new way ...