VEXTEC Presenting at the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program Conference
VEXTEC® will be presenting at the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) 32nd Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas on November 29th, 2016. […]
VEXTEC Sponsoring the Simulia Great Lakes Regional User Meeting
VEXTEC is excited to be a sponsor at a Simulia Regional User Meeting (RUM) for the second year in a row. This year we will be at both the fe-safe User Group Meeting on October 19th and the Simulia Great Lakes Regional Meeting in Michigan on October 20th highlighting our [...]
VEXTEC Presenting at Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals Conference
VEXTEC® will be presenting a paper at the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) 24th Annual Conference in Jacksonville, FL on October 18th. The paper, entitled “Reliability Improvement with Physics-Based Failure Analytics”, will be presented by Jim Carter and Paul Holland. The paper provides insights into VEXTEC’s Virtual [...]
Air Force Awards VEXTEC® SBIR PH II to Develop Corrosion Prediction Software for the Lifetime Assessment of Airborne Systems
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 5, 2016 -The United States Air Force (USAF) recognizes that rising procurement cost and shrinking budgets require sustainment of existing aircraft. An improved life cycle management tool that helps inform sustainment decisions and extends remaining useful life of aircraft is essential for decreasing total ownership [...]
The Comet’s Resonance
A couple of months ago, there was an anniversary that might not be very well-known: July 27, 1949. It is a date as momentous for air travel as it is for the advancement of the field of fatigue and fracture mechanics. On this date, the de Havilland Comet, the [...]
Corrosion as the “Good Guy”
Image by Praisaeng at FreeDigitalPhotos.net While plenty of industries abhor corrosion and its consequences, another sector has welcomed it as a step in the healing process: medical devices. Devices have evolved over the decades to be less-intrusive during (and after) implantation.The bio-inert nature of titanium (along with [...]
Corrosion as the “Bad Guy”
Read Next Blog in the Series Image courtesy of sakhorn38 at FreeDigitalPhotos.net The topic of corrosion makes recurring appearances in the media; it seems that when you hear about one corrosion-related problem, invariably there will be others reported-on at around the [...]
VEXTEC Presenting at Trelleborg’s 2016 Global FEA Meeting
August, 2016 – Dr. Sanjeev Kulkarni (VP, Sales & Business Development) and Dr. Robert Tryon (CTO) from VEXTEC Corporation will be presenting at the 2016 Global Finite Element Analysis (FEA) meeting for Trelleborg Sealing Solutions (TSS) to be held in Boston, MA on September 15. […]
VEXTEC Presenting at International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials XI
August 30, 2016 -Dr. Robert Tryon, CTO of VEXTEC, will be presenting at the eleventh biennial International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials which will be held in Hyannis, Massachusetts beginning September 18th through the 23rd. […]
VEXTEC® Receives Phase I STTR Award from NAVAIR to Decrease Certification Time & Cost for Additive Manufacturing of Components
July 18, 2016, Brentwood, TN – The Naval Air Warfighter Center, Aircraft Division, has contracted with VEXTEC Corporation to demonstrate the feasibility of using integrated computational material engineering (ICME) software tools to greatly decrease the time and money needed to certify an Additive Manufactured (AM) [...]