Advanced Multifunctional Lightweight Aerostructures
Advanced Multifunctional Lightweight Aerostructures

Author: Kamran Behdinan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1119756723

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Offers a review of the newest methodologies for the characterization and modelling of lightweight materials and structures Advances in Multifunctional Lightweight Structures offers a text that provides and in-depth analyses of the thermal, electrical and mechanical responses of multi-functional lightweight structures. The authors, noted experts on the topic, address the most recent and innovative methodologies for the characterization and modelling of lightweight materials and discuss various shell and plate theories. They present multifunctional materials and structures and offer detailed descriptions of the complex modelling of these structures. The text is divided into three sections that demonstrate a keen understanding and awareness for multi-functional lightweight structures by taking a unique approach. The authors explore multi-disciplinary modelling and characterization alongside benchmark problems and applications, topics that are rarely approached in this field. This important book: • Offers an analyses of the thermal, electrical and mechanical responses of multi-functional lightweight structures • Covers innovative methodologies for the characterization and modelling of lightweight materials and structures • Presents a characterization of a wide variety of novel materials • Considers multifunctional novel structures with potential applications in different high-tech industries • Includes efficient and highly accurate methodologies Written for professionals, engineers and researchers in industrial and other specialized research institutions, Advances in Multifunctional Lightweight Structures offers a much needed text to the design practices of existing engineering building services and how these methods combine with recent developments.

Multifunctional Lightweight Structures
Multifunctional Lightweight Structures

Author: Lothar Kroll

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-28

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 3662622173

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This book presents key research findings on the combination of different technologies that promise to be particularly sustainable and broadly impactful in their application. The findings were compiled during the course of the first funding period for the MERGE Cluster of Excellence. New methods, potential solutions, and exemplary pilot applications take center stage as the text explores the next generation of functional integration via lightweight structures. The underlying manufacturing processes are based on textile, polymer, and metal processing techniques, all of which are suitable for large batch production, flexibility, and reproducibility.

Multifunctional Metallic Hollow Sphere Structures
Multifunctional Metallic Hollow Sphere Structures

Author: Christian Augustin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-10-04

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 3642004911

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Multifunctional Metallic Hollow Sphere Structures are an emerging new material category, belonging like metal foams to the class cellular metals. Thanks to their advantageous mechanical and sound absorbing properties, Multifunctional Metallic Hollow Sphere Structures are very promising for various applications and our technological knowledge makes them ready for industrial usage. This reference gives a complete overview on this new materials class, the fundamentals, the applications and the perspective for future use. It provides the foundations for a profound understanding (production and processing), their physical properties (surface properties and stalility) and applicaltion (in particular for sound absorption and chemical adsorption in structural parts). The book is written for material scientists, product designers and developers as well as academic researches and scientists.

Recent Advances in Multi-Functional Structures
Recent Advances in Multi-Functional Structures

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13:

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The AFRL and its government and industry partners are actively pursuing a variety of technologies that are revolutionizing the design of future spacecraft structures. Multi-Functional Structures (MFS) is a new design paradigm that seeks to integrate the load carrying capability of traditional structures with other spacecraft functions. The result of this integrated approach is the potential for order of magnitude improvements with respect to mass, cost, and volume. This paper provides an overview of three MFS projects: Lightweight Flexible Solar Array, the Advanced Technology Demonstration System, and Lithium Battery Core (LibaCore). Both technical and programmatic issues associated with maturing this technology and providing a vehicle for affected technology transition are presented. Experience has shown that transitioning new technology requires both technical advancement as well as demonstrating benefits that outweigh potential risks. It also requires developing the confidence needed to insert this technology through appropriate ground and flight demonstrations. The primary purpose of this paper is to show how industry and government can partner successfully to achieve these objectives.

Materials Research to Meet 21st-Century Defense Needs
Materials Research to Meet 21st-Century Defense Needs

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2003-03-25

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 0309087007

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In order to achieve the revolutionary new defense capabilities offered by materials science and engineering, innovative management to reduce the risks associated with translating research results will be needed along with the R&D. While payoff is expected to be high from the promising areas of materials research, many of the benefits are likely to be evolutionary. Nevertheless, failure to invest in more speculative areas of research could lead to undesired technological surprises. Basic research in physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science will provide the seeds for potentially revolutionary technologies later in the 21st century.

NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities
NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0309253624

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NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) has begun to rebuild the advanced space technology program in the agency with plans laid out in 14 draft technology roadmaps. It has been years since NASA has had a vigorous, broad-based program in advanced space technology development and its technology base has been largely depleted. However, success in executing future NASA space missions will depend on advanced technology developments that should already be underway. Reaching out to involve the external technical community, the National Research Council (NRC) considered the 14 draft technology roadmaps prepared by OCT and ranked the top technical challenges and highest priority technologies that NASA should emphasize in the next 5 years. This report provides specific guidance and recommendations on how the effectiveness of the technology development program managed by OCT can be enhanced in the face of scarce resources.