High Temperature Composite Materials

  • Geoffrey W. Meetham
  • Marcel H. Van de Voorde
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Abstract

The emphasis to date in the development of high performance composite materials has been to improve specific properties within the temperature capability of the existing systems rather than to increase the temperature capability. Historically high performance composite materials have been developed primarily to meet the aerospace industry need for strong, lightweight structures of high stiffness. The glass fibres, which were available as reinforcements up to 1960, were strong but not particularly stiff. The production of carbon fibres in the early 1960’s led to high-strength/ high-stiffness polymer composite structures in which the properties were controlled by varying the amount and stacking of the fibres in various directions. Such materials are widely used in the latest designs of airframe (some 10% and 30% of the structural weight of commercial and military aircraft respectively).

Keywords

Metal Matrix Composite Ceramic Matrix Composite Nickel Superalloy Temperature Capability Titanium Matrix Composite 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Geoffrey W. Meetham
    • 1
  • Marcel H. Van de Voorde
    • 2
  1. 1.DerbyUK
  2. 2.Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Materials Science and TechnologyDelft University of TechnologyDelftThe Netherlands

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