FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BRENTWOOD, Tenn., November 18, 2019 – Last week, VEXTEC was among a shortlisted group of small businesses that participated in the US Air Force’s Open Innovation Pitch Day for Rapid Sustainment. After VEXTEC’s Phase I work demonstrated the feasibility of a virtual [...]
In the first week of December 2018, VEXTEC’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee played host to the co-located meetings for the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) and the working group for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Materials Shortages (DMSMS). These are the premier annual meetings related to the [...]
Watch our recent presentation on "Computational Modeling of Complex Systems using Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME)" given at this year's Simulia fe-safe User Group Meeting:
This is the first installment of a new blog series on the physics of fatigue. It has been adapted from the upcoming Ph.D. dissertation of VEXTEC’s Robert McDaniels. Fatigue can best be considered as a process, rather than an event [1, 2]. The fatigue process [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In the race to get products to market, does risk-mitigation get enough time in the winner’s circle? What do aerospace, medical device manufacturers, and auto racing all have in common? Answer: the need to minimize risk of premature/unexpected component failure while crossing the finish line first. While these industries [...]
The hottest word currently being spoken in offices and around dinner tables in the US is “sequestration.” Not since the seminal juror movie 12 Angry Men has the word enjoyed such buzz. While there are many ongoing debates concerning the political ramifications of this government budget-reduction action (that went [...]