Manufacturing of dorsal fins for the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile highlights continued growth in Queensland’s composite aerospace manufacturing sector.

Professor Adrian Mouritz from RMIT University was recognised for his outstanding contribution in the field of composites.

A newly developed robotic system for rapid automated material specimen testing has the potential to dramatically increase the speed of characterisation for new composite materials.

Mathew Joosten’s PhD thesis presents an investigation of triggering mechanisms designed to ensure energy absorbing composite structures exhibit a progressive crushing mode of failure. The crushing of composite structures provides significant dissipation of energy in a crash if a brittle buckling mode of failure is prevented from occurring.

Presenting three years of development work at the American Helicopter Society 67^th Annual Forum, the CRC-ACS paper highlighted a successful building block approach to component testing and validated simulation.

The approach to the repair of pipelines and other Oil & Gas infrastructure could see a transformation with the announcement that PETRONAS has developed an underwater curing composite repair system.  

Michael Heitzmann’s work on Blister testing captured the attention of academic judges who voted his paper as the best journal article in Mechanical or Mining or Materials Engineering, 2010-2011.

Newcastle University has built a respected profile in the exploitation of composite materials across a number of market sectors.  The School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering is engaged in CRC-ACS projects related to Oil & Gas applications of composites.

The Operations and Sustainment program of the CRC-ACS (Program 3) focuses upon the development of repair and structural health monitoring technology suitable for the Aerospace and Oil & Gas industry sectors.