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The Effect of Titanium on Equipment Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

D. A. J. Harben
D. A. J. Harben*
Affiliation:
Dunlop Limited
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Extract

In the paper by Messrs. Wood and Hammond it has been shown that titanium is likely to save weight compared with steel, where complexity together with the cost of manufacture make it necessary to have some material which is “structurally inert”. The presentation also showed that at high complexity factors, changing from aluminium to titanium would add weight. If the presentation could have included the effect of increasing the operating temperature it would have shown a narrowing gap until at temperatures above about 250 °C, aluminium is no longer viable.

Type
Supplementary Papers
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 75 , Issue 731 , November 1971 , pp. 815 - 819
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1971 

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References

Paper given at a symposium on “The Effect of New Materials on Aircraft Design” on 4th March 1971.