Advanced Aerospace Materials

1. Situation and Perspectives.- 2. Metallic Materials and Metal Matrix Composites.- 2.1 Metallic Materials.- 2.1.1 Aluminium Alloys.- 2.1.1.1 High-Strength Aluminium Alloys.- 2.1.1.2 Aluminium-Lithium Alloys.- 2.1.1.3 Powder Metallurgy of Aluminium Alloys.- 2.1.2 Titanium Alloys and Aluminides.- 2.1.2.1 Titanium Alloys.- 2.1.2.2 Titanium Aluminides.- 2.1.3 Superalloys and Coatings.- 2.1.3.1 Superalloys.- 2.1.3.2 High Temperature Corrosion.- 2.1.3.3 Coatings.- 2.2 Metal-Matrix Composites.- 2.2.1 Metal-Matrix Composites with Aluminium Matrix.- 2.2.2 Fibre Reinforced Aluminium Laminates.- 2.2.3 Titanium Matrix Composites.- 2.2.4 Interfaces in Metal Matrix Composites.- 3. Ceramic Materials and Ceramic Matrix Composites.- 3.1 Non-Oxide Materials (Silicon Nitride).- 3.1.1 Fabrication and Microstructural Development of Non-Oxide Ceramics (Silicon Nitride).- 3.1.2 Silicon Nitride Matrix Composites.- 3.1.3 Fracture and Fatigue of Non-Oxide Ceramics.- 3.2 Oxide Materials (Mullite).- 3.3 Imaging Microstructures of Monolithic Carbons and Carbon/Carbon Composites in the TEM.- 4. Polymer Matrix Composites.- 4.1 Quasi-Static Strength of Polymer Matrix Composites.- 4.2 Fatigue Strength of Polymer Matrix Composites.- 5. Materials Characterization and Life Prediction.- 5.1 Microstructural and Microanalytic Methods.- 5.2 Fatigue and Fracture of Metallic Materials.- 5.2.1 Random Load Fatigue and Life Prediction.- 5.2.2 Physical Reasons for the Existence of ?Keff.- 5.2.3 Crack Growth Life Prediction.- 5.3 Special Testing Techniques.- 5.3.1 Stress Corrosion Testing.- 5.3.2 Biaxial Testing.- 5.3.3 Chevron Notched Specimen Testing.- Abbreviations.- Laudatio.