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  title info:
    title: Application of lightweighting technology to military aircraft, vessels, and vehicles
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: Committee on Benchmarking the Technology and Application of Lightweighting.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: National Research Council (U.S.)
    name part: National Materials and Manufacturing Board.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 147 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
  abstract: "Lightweighting is a concept well known to structural designers and engineers in all applications areas, from laptops to bicycles to automobiles to buildings and airplanes. Reducing the weight of structures can provide many advantages, including increased energy efficiency, better design, improved usability, and better coupling with new, multifunctional features. While lightweighting is a challenge in commercial structures, the special demands of military vehicles for survivability, maneuverability and transportability significantly stress the already complex process. Application of lightweighting technology to military aircraft, vessels, and vehicles assesses the current state of lightweighting implementation in land, sea, and air vehicles and recommends ways to improve the use of lightweight materials and solutions. This book considers both lightweight materials and lightweight design; the availability of lightweight materials from domestic manufacturers; and the performance of lightweight materials and their manufacturing technologies. It also considers the 'trade space'--that is, the effect that use of lightweight materials or technologies can have on the performance and function of all vehicle systems and components. This book also discusses manufacturing capabilities and affordable manufacturing technology to facilitate lightweighting ... [and] will be of interest to the military, manufacturers and designers of military equipment, and decision makers"--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Background and motivation -- Lightweighting airborne vehicles -- Lightweighting maritime vehicles -- Lightweighting land-based vehicles -- Cross-cutting issues and challenges -- Findings and recommendations -- Appendixes.
  note: Committee on Benchmarking the Technology and Application of Lightweighting, National Materials and Manufacturing Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.
  note: Also available in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Vehicles, Military
    topic: Design and construction
  classification: UG615 .N383 2012
  identifier: 9780309221665
  identifier: 0309221668
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  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 120126
    record change date: 20151202171407.0
    record identifier: in00002770056
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng