Advanced Fabrication Processes.
Abstract
The Structures and Materials Panel's interests in advanced fabrication processes stem from the increasing acquisition and maintenance sosts of current aerospace systems. This has led to greatly increased emphasis, within many of the NATO nations, on means of reducing processing costs and improving the quality of manufacturers' components through improved material/process selection and control. There are emerging efforts in many of the NATO nations to bring together the design, materials and mechanics fundamentals underlying materials deformation, metal removal, joining coating and other related processes. Similarily, new processes are emerging both within the aerospace processing community and within the more general commercial area, that offer significant opportunities for lower cost,higher quality aerospace components. Therefore the purpose of the Specialists' meeting was threefold. Most importantly it was to elucidate on some specific high payoff new processing concepts selected from a cross-section of NATO nations. This broad base of coverage was invaluable in and of itself but also was intended to aid in a second purpose which was hopefully to steer the Structures and Materials Panel toward slection of specific new area(s) where data and information interchange in much greater depth would be beneficial, such as was achieved in the powder metallurgy area. The third purpose was to promote a coupling of the fundamental research activities to more applied efforts. There is increasing emphasis and also much progress being made across NATO nations in research on the fundamental aspects of processing.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA068980
Entities
Organizations
- AGARD