Carbon Nanotube Hierarchical Composites for Interlaminar Strengthening
The exploitation of conventional, continuous fibre-reinforced plastics in engineering structures has been…
Boundary Layer Separation and Pressure Drag
At the start of the 19th century, after studying the highly cambered…
How Quickly Do Bubbles Rise in a Pint of Beer?
The material we covered in the last two posts (skin friction and pressure drag)…
Operational Requirements
Every aircraft has a certain operational environment, including aspects of flight and…
Risk and failure in complex engineering systems
“We must ensure this never happens again.” This is a common reaction…
On Boundary Layers: Laminar, Turbulent and Skin Friction
In the early 20th century, a group of German scientists led by…
Antifragility and Aircraft Design
Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term “Antifragility” in his book of the same name. Antifragility…
