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Watch a video to learn more about UNT’s Institute for Science and Engineering Simulation.
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Studying Aircraft Fatigue
UNT's Institute for Science and Engineering Simulation will help the U.S. Air Force keep aging aircraft flight-worthy and may someday assist cost-strapped commercial airlines in maintaining their vast fleets.
(Pictured: The nanometer and sub-micrometer scale regions of a nickel alloy used in a jet engine turbine disk are key to maintaining the alloy’s strength at high temperatures. Image courtesy of ISES)
By James Naples