SEAM Seminar Series with Loris Molent AM (Aerostructures Consultant)

Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials (SEAM)

SEAM Seminar Series ‘Trustworthiness, Reliability & Materials Science for Aircraft Structures’. Talk 3: ‘Why can’t you design a fail proof..

SEAM Seminar Series ‘Trustworthiness, Reliability &amp; Materials Science for Aircraft Structures’. Talk 3: ‘Why can’t you design a fail proof aircraft like the black box recorder?&#x27;Abstract: Mr Loris Molent AM is seldom asked as to why aerospace engineers cannot build an aircraft from the same stuff as the black box flight-data recorder. Simply, it must get off the ground! You get nothing for free in aerospace, every factor is traded off against another. Weight trades off performance, and even safety is traded for longevity. In this seminar presentation Mr Molent will briefly discuss the reasons why an aircraft structure can fail during service and will focus on the most insidious issue: metal fatigue. He will touch on several classic aircraft accidents to illustrate the problem.Biography: Loris Molent AM is an acknowledged authority in the fields of aircraft structural integrity, structural mechanics, structural and fatigue testing, advanced composite bonded repair, aircraft vulnerability and aircraft accident investigation. He has over 250 publications in these technical areas and is a qualified aircraft accident investigator. He has been attached to both the then Australian Civil Aviation Department and the US Navy NAVAIR Structures in Washington D.C. as an airworthiness engineer and has a board network of collaborators both nationally and internationally. Until October 2020 Mr Molent was the Defence Science and Technology Group’s Head of Emerging Aircraft Structural Integrity. In 2010 Mr Molent was presented with the Minister’s Award for Achievements in Defence Science, in 2016 was awarded with a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in addition to having received numerous team achievement awards. He is currently a consultant and trainer in Aircraft Structural Integrity, Air Accident Investigation and novel fatigue analyses methods.

SEAM Seminar Series with Loris Molent AM (Aerostructures Consultant)

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