This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Tests of golf clubs and other sports equipment—whether carried out by their designers and manufacturers or the ...

Once reserved for the aerospace and automotive industries, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has become ubiquitous in general industrial applications because of its effectiveness in digitally modeling ...

Recent advances in composite plate material characterisation have significantly enhanced our ability to assess and predict the performance of engineered materials under complex loading scenarios. By ...

There is an important, ongoing debate in aerospace composites. Critics of the “building block approach” (BBA) used to generate design allowables claim that the required testing of thousands of ...

Small punch testing (SPT) has emerged as an indispensable technique for assessing the mechanical properties of materials using only tiny specimens. By utilising a miniature, disc‐shaped specimen ...