THE “AGGRESSIVE CORROSION OF THE USS INDEPENDENCE – WHO’S TO BLAME?
Posted by: gCaptain.com By Mike Schuler You may have seen recently that Austal, a designer and manufacturer of high performance aluminium vessels including a number of vessels for the U.S. Navy,...
View ArticleCOMPOSITE VS. CORROSION: BATTLING FOR MARKETSHARE
Article Posted: Composites Technology October 2011, Authored by: Michael LeGault Market trends and tighter budgets are helping to expand the use of composites to repair and replace corrosion-damaged...
View ArticleWORLD’S LIGHTEST MATERIAL IS 99.99 PERCENT AIR [VIDEO]
Posted by Smartplanet.com Author: Tuan C. Nguyen The lightest material in the world is almost as light as air. In fact, it’s made up of 99.99 percent air, weighs 100 times lighter than Styrofoam and...
View ArticleLAWSUIT CITES DESIGN DEFECT, NEGLIGENCE IN FAILURE OF WRIGHT PROFEMUR TOTAL...
Wright Medical Technology Changed Material in 2009, but Issued No Warnings or Recalls Posted By: MarketWatch.com Source: Stephen I. Leshner, P.C A Phoenix man filed a lawsuit today in U.S. District...
View ArticleAPRIL 24 IS CORROSION AWARENESS DAY 2012
Corrosion costs nearly $4 Trillion worldwide each year. April 24, 2012 has been dedicated to raising awareness about what can be done to prevent the impact of corrosion on people, infrastructure, and...
View ArticleBETTER PRODUCTS THROUGH COMPUTATIONAL PROCESSING AND SIMULATION
Author: Carl D. Kolts, VP of Sales and Business Development, VEXTEC Corporation Every company manufacturing a commercial product is focused on two things – growing revenue and reducing costs. To some...
View ArticleSTRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: OVERVIEW OF SAFE LIFE AND DAMAGE TOLERANCE
Note: This post is the first in a series of blogs exploring industry-recognized structural design principles. This material originated in an internal white paper written by Dr. Robert Tryon, Chief...
View ArticleSTRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: SAFE LIFE DESIGN
The philosophy of safe life design is the preferred method for designing components for durable operation in the automotive industry. Under this method, the structure is operated at a stress far below...
View ArticleSTRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: DAMAGE TOLERANT DESIGN
The damage tolerance approach to design has been employed by the aerospace industry for decades. In contrast to the safe life design method, damage tolerance explicitly accounts the fatigue crack...
View ArticleSTRUCTURAL DESIGN CONCEPTS: SAFE LIFE, DAMAGE TOLERANCE AND VEXTEC’S VIRTUAL...
Over the last few weeks, VEXTEC has explored the two main philosophies of modern structural design: safe life design and damage tolerant design. Today we share with you a summary of these methods,...
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