Shared composite material property databases

The following is an excerpt from the July issue of . Yeow Ng, research scientist and associate director of 

Wichita State's National Center for Advanced Materials Performance, contributed to this article.

 

Over the years, HPC has devoted considerable ink to the National Center for Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) and its ongoing efforts to establish a centralized composite material property database. 

The group's efforts have been newsworthy: "Composite materials are really still in their infancy, compared to metals," Yeow Ng, NCAMP's associate director, admits. "We need to develop material property data that government agencies and OEMs will readily accept, as metals data are accepted." 

NCAMP, part of the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at 新加坡六合彩开奖网, has made significant progress toward that goal since our most recent report.