Benefits of using MERL

MERL’s holistic view of materials and structures engineering allows it to address niche areas for the aerospace industry. Its engineers have direct civilian and military experience in industry with Rolls Royce, NASA, QinetiQ, BAe Systems, Airbus, EADSs. This experience along with MERL analysis and experimental capability help its aerospace clients address issues from design to in-service problems.

These issues are non-trivial and include:

• Durability and damage tolerance
• High cycle fatigue testing
• Environmental conditioning
• Impact
• Effects of defects
• Debonding and delamination
• Durability of rubber in isolation and sealing applications