One of the keys to any engine development program, from Winston Cup to the Saturday- night racer, is the ability to effectively evaluate changes to the engine. The goal of any engine development ...

Over the decades, ASTM shear test methods have continued to evolve as composite applications require higher shear strengths.

This appendix presents a brief overview of the defense acquisition process. 1 The diagram below from the U.S. Department of Defense (2008:12 enclosure 2) depicts the development of defense systems as ...

New players proliferate, increasing CMC materials and manufacturing capacity, novel processes and automation to meet demand for higher part volumes and performance. As the composite industry shifts ...

Back when semiconductor devices contained only a few thousand gates, manufacturing test was almost an afterthought. The development team threw the chip “over the wall” to the test engineers, who ...

Although it is sometimes thought that quality assurance (QA) and software testing are the same, they are, in fact, different concepts. They differ in their objectives, features and methods. Testers ...