Conclusion
At present there are the technical and economic prerequisites for broad use of composite materials in large-scale machine building industries. Replacement of traditional metallic materials by composite ones provides a reduction in material consumption for machine parts of up to 2.5 times with an increase in their operating life of up to 3 times and decreases the labor requirement for production by up to 10 times with a reduction in the time for organization of production of a new part of up to 2.5 times. The reliability of composite materials parts is 1.5 times greater than of those of traditional materials. The unquestionable advantages of composite materials make it possible to confidently predict a steady broadening of their use in advanced models of transportation machinery in the very near future.
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Moscow Automechanical Institute. Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 8, pp. 2–7, August, 1990.
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Volkov, G.M. Composite materials in large-scale machine building. Met Sci Heat Treat 32, 553–558 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00700703
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