Advanced Engineering Show 2025
We showcased live demonstrations of iSurface — intelligent composite materials with real-time impact detection and structural health monitoring.
iSurface at Advanced Engineering 2025
Two days of live demonstrations, discussions, and collaboration at the NEC. Visitors saw how embedded conductive fibres and AI-driven analysis can turn composite materials into intelligent systems — capable of detecting, localising, and classifying impact events as they happen.
We’re grateful to everyone who stopped by our stand to explore how this technology is shaping the next generation of structural health monitoring.
Invisible Intelligence — Presented at Advanced Engineering 2025
Dr Ata Yoosefinejad, Founder of Munro Technology, opened the Composites Forum with “Innovative Intelligent Composite Materials,” exploring how embedded sensing and AI are transforming structural health monitoring.
Live Demonstrations on Stand
Visitors saw real-time impact detection in action — each strike instantly visualised on-screen, showing where, when, and how hard the structure was hit. A live example of intelligent composites turning data into awareness.
Explore the Science Behind iSurface
Our whitepaper, Foreign Object Debris and the Future of Aerospace Composites, shares the data, testing, and results behind iSurface — including fracture-toughness uplift and real-time diagnostics. Available now for download.
Whitepaper: Foreign Object Debris and the Future of Aerospace Composites
A concise technical overview of intelligent composites for structural health monitoring. The paper outlines how an electrically conductive fibre lattice integrated with AI delivers on-impact detection, energy/location mapping, and predictive diagnostics for BVID/FOD in aerospace-grade laminates.
Access the full analysis, test protocols, and integration guidance in the whitepaper.
About iSurface
Real-time awareness within the laminate
iSurface embeds a thin, electrically conductive layer that generates clean signals during impact, strain, bending, and shear. AI-based modelling interprets these signals in real time to characterise events, locate affected regions, and support condition-based maintenance decisions.
Large-area sensing with built-in redundancy
A distributed sensor lattice maintains coverage if a local region is damaged, with signalling re-routed around the affected area. Integration pathways include co-cure, retrofit to the skin, or primer/paint-layer incorporation, minimising process change while enabling persistent monitoring.
Strength and intelligence, combined
Representative laminates demonstrated fracture-toughness uplift up to +87% (Mode I) and +244% (Mode II) versus baseline while enabling live sensing and AI diagnostics. Operators can transition from schedule-based inspection to data-driven, condition-based approaches, reducing routine inspection burden and unplanned downtime.
Note: Performance varies by layup; tested to aerospace standards in controlled conditions.
Get in Touch
If you’d like to learn more about iSurface, discuss collaboration, or see the technology in action, our team would be glad to connect. Use the form below to reach us directly.
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