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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who among the Navy’s best and brightest hasn’t at some point earlier in their enlisted career been forced to scrape rusting, dilapidated paint from the various corners of the service’s ageing fleet of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A part before (above) and after (below) running through Huffman’s Abrasive Waterjet process. Unlike manual processes such as acid stripping and grit blasting, a precision Abrasive Waterjet (AWJ) ...