PROPERTIES AND WORKING CHARACTERISTICS OF CAST CELLULAR AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS

Abstract

A study was conducted to: (1) produce a variety of nonferrous cellular and composite materials; (2) subject certain composite materials to swaging, forging, and extrusion; (3) determine certain physical and mechanical properties of these materials; and (4) predict the characteristics of untried composite systems from these properties. This study was exploratory in nature and involved, for the most part, simple combinations of pure metals. The properties of the component phases of the systems studied were determined in the cellular and solid form. The properties of the cast composites showed that, where the difference between the strength of the com ponent phases was not excessive (the stronger phase being no more than four times stronger than the weaker), the properties of the composite system could be predicted on the basis of a knowledge of the characteristics of the component phases.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0414348

Entities

People

  • L. Polonsky
  • S. Lipson

Organizations

  • Frankford Arsenal

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Composite Materials
  • Composite Structures
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Hot Working
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanical Working
  • Military Research
  • Munitions
  • Tensile Strength
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

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  • Metallurgy
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Systems Analysis and Design