Composite plating, advanced

Tay, T. E Shang. H. M.. and Lwin, M. (1993), Application of holographic interferometry in the detection of flaws in composite plates. Proc. of the Inter. Conf. on Advanced Composite Materials, pp. 683-686. 

Quantrill, R. J. and Hollaway, L. C. (1998), The flexural rehabilitation of reinforced concrete beams by the use of prestressed advanced composite plates . Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 58, pp. 1259-1275. 

Metals and ceramics (claylike materials) are also used as matrices in advanced composites. In most cases, metal matrix composites consist of aluminum, magnesium, copper, or titanium alloys of these metals or intermetallic compounds, such as TiAl and NiAl. The reinforcement is usually a ceramic material such as boron carbide (B4C), silicon carbide (SiC), aluminum oxide (A1203), aluminum nitride (AlN), or boron nitride (BN). Metals have also been used as reinforcements in metal matrices. For example, the physical characteristics of some types of steel have been improved by the addition of aluminum fibers. The reinforcement is usually added in the form of particles, whiskers, plates, or fibers. 

In the last 10 years, significant advances in fibrous monolithic ceramics have been achieved. A variety of materials in the form of either oxide or nonoxide ceramic for cell and cell boundary have been investigated [1], As a result of these efforts, FMs are now commercially available from the ACR company [28], These FMs are fabricated by a coextrusion process. In addition, the green fiber composite can then be wound, woven, or braided into the shape of the desired component. The applications of these FMs involve solid hot gas containment tubes, rocket nozzles, body armor plates, and so forth. Such commercialization of FMs itself proves that these ceramic composites are the most promising structural components at elevated temperatures. 

L.E. Line, Jr., U. V. Henderson, Jr., in Handbook of Fiberglass and Advanced Plastics Composites Boron Filament and Other Reinforcements Produced by Chemical Vapor Plating , (Ed. G. Lubin), Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1969, pp. 201-36. 

T. D. Burchell, Carbon Composite Bipolar Plates for PEMFC, 26 Annual International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 13-18, Cocoa Beach, FL. 

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