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Aerospace materials /

This volume provides a grounding in state-of-the-art aerospace materials technology, including developments in aluminium, titanium and nickel alloys as well as polymers and polymers composites, and covers applications to airframes, aeroengines and space craft.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Taylor & Francis, Oxford-Kobe Materials Seminar
Other Authors: Cantor, B., Grant, Patrick, Assender, Hazel
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics, 2001.
Series:Series in materials science and engineering.
Subjects:
Airplanes > Materials.
Composite materials.
Avions > Matériaux.
Composites.
composite material.
Airplanes > Materials
Composite materials
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; 1. Aerospace materials and manufacturing processes at the millennium; 2. Advanced materials and process technologies for aerospace structures; 3. Materials for supersonic civil transport aircraft; 4. Aluminium-lithium alloys in helicopter airframes; 5. High performance polymers and advanced composites for space application; 6. Advanced polymer composite propeller blades; 7. Materials developments in aeroengine gas turbines; 8. Blading materials and systems in advanced aeroengines; 9. Advances in aerospace materials and structures
  • 10. Fatigue optimization in aerospace aluminium alloys11. Bulk amorphous, nanocrystalline and nanoquasicrystalline aluminium alloys; 12. High toughness metal matrix composites; 13. Matrix and fibre systems in polymer matrix composites; 14. Toughened thermoset resin matrix composites; 15. Hydrophobic epoxies for polymer matrix composites; 16. Technical and economic considerations influencing the role of advanced polymer composites in airframe applications; 17. TiAl-based alloys for aeroengine applications; 18. Titanium metal matrix composites
  • 19. Anisotropic creep in single crystal superalloys20. Microstructural evolution in single crystal nickel-based superalloys during high temperature creep; 21. Effects of tantalum and rhenium on creep in single crystals of nickel-20% chromium; 22. Thermal barrier coatings; Index