SAN ANTONIO -- Oct. 13, 2020 -- Stripping paint and other coatings from full-body aircraft is required multiple times over the course of an aircraft's lifespan. Traditionally, coating removal ...

Air Force Research Laboratory Materials Integrity engineers recently played a key role in enabling the safer and more efficient removal of paint from F-16 aircraft through the newly adopted Robotic ...

At Port San Antonio, a 7-story-tall, laser-wielding robot is ready to blast coats of paint from aircraft and other big pieces of machinery. A collaboration between Southwest Research Institute and ...

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), MOL Drybulk, Furukawa Electric, and Tsuneishi Shipbuilding, have tested the InfraLaser system on the outer hull of an actual vessel, successfully stripping down rust and ...

The laser coating removal robot (LCR), developed by Southwest Research Institute and XYREC, uses intelligent process monitoring to precisely and safely remove paint and other coatings from full-body ...

(Nanowerk News) Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) of Johnstown, Pa., are working with the Air Force Research ...

A new hybrid process allows high-strength coating materials to be applied quickly and efficiently, with concurrent machining, to produce critical parts with extended service life quickly, and with ...

The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE), which provides MRO and technical services for Navy and Marine Corps aviation, is pursuing investment in laser ablation technology to make cleaning ...

Standard thermo-mechanical stripping, solvent cleaning and arc fusion splicing technologies are now over 20 years old and were developed for basic acrylic coated 125μm SM fibre splicing. As fibre ...

Some floor coatings are very durable and guaranteed to last for years and years of daily use. When the job is to pull up a perfectly good coating, I have heard many horrific stories of costly problems ...