Materials

Ultra-Strong Alloy Engineering

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How Have Engineers Made One of the Most Brittle Materials in Existence Bend Without Breaking? Materials engineers have a long-standing problem. The strongest materials are usually the most brittle. Push them too far and they shatter rather than bend. Engineers at Purdue University have now overcome that trade-off in a material long considered too fragile

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Carbon-Carbon Composites

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How Has a New Manufacturing Process Just Solved One of Aerospace’s Most Persistent Engineering Problems? Carbon-carbon composites are among the most remarkable engineering materials in existence. They combine microscopic carbon fibres with a graphitic matrix. The result retains structural properties at temperatures exceeding 2,000 degrees Celsius — conditions that would destroy virtually any other engineering

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