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Structural Alloy Testing: Part 1—Ambient Temperature Properties

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Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies

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Standard data on ambient temperature mechanical and environmental properties, including yield and tensile strengths, fatigue and fatigue crack growth, fracture toughness, corrosion and stress corrosion, are essential—indeed mandatory—for the qualification and certification of aerospace structural materials and the design of actual structures and components. This chapter discusses the determination of important ambient temperature mechanical and environmental properties of aerospace alloys at the basic level of specimen and coupon testing.

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Wanhill, R.J.H. (2017). Structural Alloy Testing: Part 1—Ambient Temperature Properties. In: Prasad, N., Wanhill, R. (eds) Aerospace Materials and Material Technologies . Indian Institute of Metals Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2143-5_9

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