Increasing the use of biocomposites has significant potential for positive environmental outcomes, but achieving this will require addressing major challenges, as well as choosing the right applications in the short term.

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.

In the second of a series of technical articles, the analysis of representative Finite Element Models of multi-layer composites generated from MicroCT scan images is presented.

In the first of a series of technical articles, the challenges of primary structure repair of composites is discussed, leading to the development of a “hard patch” scarf repair system.