High Performance Materials in Aerospace / by Harvey M. Flower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flower, Harvey M., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automotive engineering.

Automotive Engineering.

Local Subjects:

Automotive Engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 382 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 1995.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995.

Summary:

Aerospace presents an extremely challenging environment for structural materials and the development of new, or improved, materials: processes for material and for component production are the subject of continuous research activity. It is in the nature of high performance materials that the steps of material and of component production should not be considered in isolation from one another. Indeed, in some cases, the very process of material production may also incorporate part or all of the component production itself and, at the very least, will influence the choice of material/component production method to be employed. How­ ever, the developments currently taking place are to be discovered largely within the confines of specialist conferences or books each dedicated to perhaps a single element of the overall process. In this book contributors, experts drawn from both academia and the aerospace industry, have joined together to combine their individual knowledge to examine high performance aerospace materials in terms of their production, structure, properties and applications. The central interrelationships between the development of structure through the production route and between structure and the properties exhibited in the final component are considered. It is hoped that the book will be of interest to students of aeronautical engineering and of materials science, together with those working within the aerospace industry. Harvey M. Flower Imperial College 1 Design requirements for aerospace structural materials C. J. Peel and P. J. Gregson 1.

Contents:

1 Design requirements for aerospace structural materials

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Properties that affect structural efficiency ab initio

1.3 Properties affecting cost of ownership

1.4 Cost-effective design

1.5 Concluding remarks

References

2 Aluminium alloys: physical metallurgy, processing andproperties

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Aluminium alloys: processing and properties

2.3 Conventional aerospace aluminium alloys

2.4 Advanced aerospace aluminium alloys

2.5 Conclusions

Further reading

3 Titanium alloys: production, behaviour and application

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Brief summary of the metallurgy of conventional Ti alloys

3.3 The production of Ti alloys and Ti alloy components

3.4 The mechanical behaviour and properties of commonTi alloys

3.5 Ti-based intermetallic compounds

3.6 Summary

Acknowledgements

4 Nickel-based alloys: recent developments for the aero-gasturbine

4.1 Background

4.2 Alloy constitution and development trends

4.3 Processing developments

4.4 Microstructure and high temperature deformation

4.5 Turbine disk applications

4.6 Future prospects

5 Structural steels

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Gear steels

5.3 Bearing steels

5.4 Ultra high strength steels

6 Ceramic materials in aerospace

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Monolithic and toughened ceramics

6.3 Composite ceramics

7 Polymeric-based composite materials

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Reinforcements

7.3 Matrices

7.4 Interface

7.5 Processing

7.6 Properties

7.7 Joining composites

7.8 Non-destructive testing (NDT)

7.9 Advantages of composite materials

8 Metal-based composite materials

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Metal—ceramic composites

8.3 Laminates

8.4Cost

8.5 Applications

8.6 Appendix

9 Superplastic forming

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Superplasticity and its characteristics

9.3 Aerospace superplastic alloys

9.4 Post-superplastic straining mechanical properties

9.5 Superplastic forming (SPF)

9.6 Advantages of SPF in aerospace structural design/manufacture

9.7 Aerospace applications of SPF

9.8 SPF/DB

9.9 Advantages of SPF/DB in aerospace structural design/manufacture

9.10 Aerospace applications of SPF/DB

9.11 Background to the application of SPF and SPF/DB in aerospace

10 Joining advanced materials by diffusion bonding

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Diffusion bonding mechanisms

10.3 Effect of surface roughness and contamination on bondinterface defects

10.4 Testing of diffusion bonded joints

10.5 Diffusion bonding techniques of metals

10.6 Diffusion bonding of intermetallics

10.7 Diffusion bonding of ceramics

10.8 Diffusion bonding of composites

10.9 Diffusion bonding of dissimilar metallic materials

10.10 Diffusion bonding of metastable alloys

10.11 Manufacture of components by diffusion bonding techniques

10.12 Conclusions

11 Adhesive bonding for aerospace applications

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Bonded wooden aircraft

11.3 Principles of bonding

11.4 Aerospace adhesive types

11.5 Surface treatments

11.6 Design of bonded joints

12 Rapid solidification and powder technologies for aerospace

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Production technologies

12.3 Effects on microstructure

12.4 Benefits of rapid solidification foraerospace applications

12.5 Conclusions

13 Hot isostatic processing

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Removal of porosity

13.3 Benefits of HIP

13.4 Applications of HIP

13.5 Powder products

13.6 Diffusion bonding

13.7 Other applications.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-011-0685-1