Tag
composites
2 posts
May 16, 2026
Thermal stress, the load case people forget
Constrained thermal expansion makes real stress with no external load on the part. Why a free part sees nothing, what alpha-delta-T-E buys you as a sanity check, CTE mismatch in joints, and why you can't always just add it to the mechanical case.
July 9, 2024
A laminate doesn't fail the way a metal does
Metals give you one failure mode to chase. A laminate gives you several at once, and the one that loses the part is usually out of the plane your in-plane criterion can see.