Changing the Strategy – Looking for Competitive Disadvantage
Most motorsport development deals with the search for a competitive advantage. Teams find ways to make their race machines faster, optimising them to reduce lap time to win races. Excerpt from an article by Racecar Engineering about how the aerodynamic design concept...
Take-Off for Sea Dart Project Grows Nearer
After four years on an incredibly challenging project we get to see the Sea Dart aircraft for real. The original brief from client The Little Jet Company was to take the original 1950s US Navy Sea Dart seaborne prototype jet fighter and produce a reduced size UAV...
World-First 3D-Printed Pistons Developed by Porsche, Mahle and Trumpf
Sports car manufacturer Porsche working jointly with mechanical engineering companies MAHLE and Trumpf, has produced high-performance aluminium pistons using 3D printing techniques for the first time for a sports car. While standard forged pistons have reached the...
Composite Curved Rear Bumper Beam Developed For New Corvette Stingray
Performance vehicle structures have long made extensive use of composite materials and the new generation of GM’s Corvette Stingray, continues the push. A key composite component of the new Corvette Stingray is a curved carbon fibre rear bumper beam, created through a...
Graphene Gaining Strength in Composites Markets
Excerpt from an article originally published in Composite Manufacturing Magazine. After a slow start, composites manufacturers are taking advantage of graphene’s unique properties. In 2004, working at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, researchers...Contact Us
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Rotherham
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