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Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

J. Fielding
J. Fielding*
Affiliation:
Hawker Siddeley Aviation, Avro Whitworth Division
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The Materials Engineer should provide materials of proven integrity with the highest possible strength to weight ratio. This paper discusses the potentialities with the basic materials used for airframes. Attention is directed mainly to materials for subsonic aircraft.

It will be helpful to consider the distribution of materials in present day aircraft, and Fig. 1 shows clearly that the basic airframe materials at present are aluminium alloys and steels.

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Type
Towards Better Structures
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 67 , Issue 635 , November 1963 , pp. 685 - 691
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1963

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