Beyond the obvious lightweighting advantages, the thing that makes composites so appealing to the aerospace market is the variability that permits engineers to tailor laminates to a wide range of ...

Structural health monitoring (SHM), essentially, involves a nondestructive testing (NDT) system that integrates sensors into a structure to enable continuous or periodic inspection. The resulting data ...

While continuously improving IC and SOC technologies, higher clock rates, and more powerful processors are music to the design engineers’ ears, the headaches of test engineers are getting worse and ...

This article is a condensed version of an article that appeared in the November/December 2022 issue of Chip Scale Review. Adapted with permission. Read the original ...

NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) seeks to enhance the use of the JSC’s unique capabilities to support government, university, and commercial activities. We believe the unique integrated resources ...

The ScanExpress boundary-scan tool suite version 7.8 includes improved cluster testing support, intelligent BSDL file handling, and a model-based test coverage. The suite also expands JTAG Embedded ...

Delta Air Lines installed sensors on the WiFi antenna area of an aircraft to test structural health monitoring. Could this be a step toward moving airframe MRO to a more predictive maintenance model, ...