Aerospace Materials

✍ Scribed by Cantor B. (ed.), Assender H. (ed.), Grant P. (ed.)

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Aerospace Materials provides a grounding in state-of-the-art aerospace materials technology, including developments in aluminum, titanium, and nickel alloys, as well as polymers and polymer composites. Experts in each topic have contributed key overviews that summarize current knowledge and indicate future trends. The book begins by outlining the industrial applications to airframes, aeroengines, and spacecraft before delving systematically into specific materials. It examines lightweight materials and then focuses on materials suited to high-temperature applications. The book combines perspectives in physics, materials science, and mechanical and aeronautical engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 9
1. Aerospace materials and manufacturing processes at the millennium......Page 15
2. Advanced materials and process technologies for aerospace structures......Page 27
3. Materials for supersonic civil transport aircraft......Page 40
4. Aluminium–lithium alloys in helicopter airframes......Page 50
5. High performance polymers and advanced composites for space application......Page 59
6. Advanced polymer composite propeller blades......Page 71
7. Materials developments in aeroengine gas turbines......Page 83
8. Blading materials and systems in advanced aeroengines......Page 93
9. Advances in aerospace materials and structures......Page 103
10. Fatigue optimization in aerospace aluminium alloys......Page 131
11. Bulk amorphous, nanocrystalline and nanoquasicrystalline aluminium alloys......Page 162
12. High toughness metal matrix composites......Page 182
13. Matrix and fibre systems in polymer matrix composites......Page 191
14. Toughened thermoset resin matrix composites......Page 199
15. Hydrophobic epoxies for polymer matrix composites......Page 211
16. Technical and economic considerations influencing the role of advanced polymer composites in airframe applications......Page 225
17. TiAl-based alloys for aeroengine applications......Page 241
18. Titanium metal matrix composites......Page 253
19. Anisotropic creep in single crystal superalloys......Page 265
20. Microstructural evolution in single crystal nickel-based superalloys during high temperature creep......Page 277
21. Effects of tantalum and rhenium on creep in single crystals of nickel–20% chromium......Page 297
22. Thermal barrier coatings......Page 306
Index......Page 323