U.S. Air Force Takes Steps to Improve Component Design
Unitech Composites specializes in designing, manufacturing, and assembling advanced aviation composites. For over 30 years, Unitech Composites has served a variety of customers in the aerospace industry, earning a reputation for quality manufacturing. The United States Air Force recently partnered with researchers and industry professionals to advance new methods in aircraft component design. The materials used to make these components have unique properties such as shape, elasticity, and flaws. Due in part to cost and other limitations on mapping the substructure of component materials, traditional design assumes that these properties are consistent throughout the material. Scientists are developing new tools that facilitate substructural analysis, allowing engineers to design components that are optimized to the substructure of the materials used. These new methods allow for huge advances in component design by helping to predict the unique behavior of these materials under given conditions. This in turn assists engineers in maximizing aircraft safety and fuel efficiency.











