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07/08/2026

Faster than sound was yesterday: The Hypersonic engineering challenge is today! Read more about on our blogs here:

It was scary to break the sound barrier. Engineers reasoned the shockwaves would rip an airplane to...

06/29/2026

Here’s a conundrum that’s not talked about enough: There is no wind tunnel on earth capable of fully replicating the conditions of .

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06/26/2026

: Solve the heating issue with ablative materials, and you can’t reuse the vehicle. Solve the reusability issue with ceramics, and they fail under thermal stress. Use carbon-carbon to tackle thermal shock, and oxidation degrades the surface. Coat the surface, and the coating spalls. If you make a scramjet that flies, it can’t start by itself. Add a rocket to get up to scramjet speed, and the system gets heavier and more complicated.

Each reply begets a fresh query. Every solution adds a constraint.

06/24/2026

The perfect material is heat-tolerant, oxidation-resistant, maintains its strength and offers little weight. It doesn’t exist yet. Every vehicle in the air today employs a compromise. Usually several bolted together.

06/22/2026

Mentis Sciences works at the intersection of , aerospace materials applied to and defense technology. Many of these challenges are some of the toughest in the field, and they don't often fall to one institution because the people who solve them know how to move across the lines that used to make research separate from reality.

06/19/2026

Faster than sound was yesterday, hypersonic is new engineering challenge: https://www.mentissciences.com/Faster-Than-Sound-Was-Yesterday--The-Hypersonic-Engineering-Challenge-1-22526.html

It was scary to break the sound barrier. Engineers reasoned the shockwaves would rip an airplane to...

06/17/2026

At speeds, aerodynamic forces drive the design. At hypersonic speeds, heat reigns supreme. And the heating doesn’t scale in a way most people think it does. It scales approximately with the cube of velocity. Double the speed and the heating goes up roughly eightfold. Not twice. Eight times.

Faster than sound was yesterday, hypersonic is the new engineering challenge.

05/29/2026

Carbon for stiffness. Aramid for impact. Ceramic for heat. Different fibers in certain segments are tuned to improve local properties while still allowing continuous combined construction.

Read more: https://www.mentissciences.com/Braided-Composite-Manufacturing--Crafting-A-Better-Future-1-22492.html

05/27/2026

is supported using in-house microscopy equipment, with magnifications up to 3,500x:

Material development is supported using in-house microscopy equipment, with mangifications up to 3,500x. Mentis utilizes this equipment on developmental programs to optimize laminate designs, resin development, cure parameters, and coatings. Hirox KH-7700 Digital Microscope, Olympus SZH10 Digital Mi...

05/25/2026

Whether it be providing amputees with light weight/high strength carbon fiber prosthetics, engineered that optimize performance, or a digital alignment fixture that accurately save and recall patients measurements at any time regardless of patient location. When it comes to engineered innovative customized solutions for the community, Mentis is on the cutting-edge: https://www.mentissciences.com/Prosthetics-10-260967.html