Properties of Materials

Aircraft Construction, Repair, and Maintenance

 Introduction and Synopsis
The Families of Engineering Materials
Materials information for Design
Material Properties and Their Units
Summary and Conclusions

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Introduction

Properties of Materials
“Materials are the food for design”

What would be the ideal/suited material

for the design?
Is the material…
The Families of Engineering Materials

Metals
Resistant to deformation; High Elastic
Moduli. When pure, they are soft and
can be easily deformed.

ALLOYS
The Families of Engineering Materials

Ceramics
Withstands high temperature,
very high elastic moduli. No
ductility, brittle.
The Families of Engineering Materials

Glasses
Withstands high
temperature, very high
elastic moduli. No
ductility, brittle.
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Polymers
Low Module, easy to shape, corrosion
resistant.
Thermoset plastics
The Families of Engineering Materials

Elastomers
Long chain polymers, has enormous
elastic extension. Use in some cases to
describe attribute profiles.
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Hybrids
Uses 2 or more different materials
which are compounded together
Composite materials.
Aramid fiber
Glass fiber
Carbon fiber

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The Families of Engineering Materials

Hybrids
Materials Information for Design

Materials Characteristics
To design with a material, you need to know
its real character, its strengths, and its
weaknesses. How do you shape it? How do
you join it? Who has used it before and for
what? Did it fail? Why? DATA!!!

How is data analysation use in material

characteristics