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Materials for Aircraft Structures Subjected to Kinetic Heating*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

A. J. Murphy
A. J. Murphy*
Affiliation:
College of Aeronautics
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The requirements of aeronautical engineers have been one of the greatest stimulants of metallurgical research and development during the present generation. Materials for the piston engine and the airframe had shared about equally the attention of the research metallurgist from the early twenties to about 1945. Then the gas turbine appropriated the major effort in metallurgical research because it was clear that progress with this propulsive unit was inescapably dependent upon the production of metals and alloys capable of giving reliable service at ever increasing temperatures. Here it was a question of evolving new materials having characteristics for which no appreciable demand existed before the advent of the gas turbine. The past five years have seen the airframe come back into the picture metallurgically, because of the new concern with fatigue and because supersonic speeds are bringing with them service temperatures for the airframe higher than anything arising while speeds of flight were comfortably subsonic.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 61 , Issue 562 , October 1957 , pp. 653 - 666
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1957

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Footnotes

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A Section Lecture given on 11th December 1956.

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